trasfegar

• trafegar, traguesar, tresegar, trousegar

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *trānsfrīcāre, from fricō, or either from *transfaecare, from faex. Doublet of traficar, a borrowing from Italian.

Cognate with Portuguese trasfegar, Spanish trasegar, Catalan trafegar, Italian trafficare, English traffic.

• IPA^(key): [tɾasfeˈɣaɾ]

trasfegar (first-person singular present trasfego, first-person singular preterite trasfeguei, past participle trasfegado)

1. to transfer (a liquid among containers; specifically, to transfer wine among different husks)

   Synonyms: resacar, sacar en limpo, trousar

2. (euphemistic) to drink immoderately

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “trasfegar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “trasfegar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “trasfegar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “trasfegar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• Hyphenation: tras‧fe‧gar

trasfegar (first-person singular present trasfego, first-person singular preterite trasfeguei, past participle trasfegado)

1. to pour liquids from a container to another

   Synonyms: transvasar, baldear, estrufegar