espigar

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /əs.piˈɡa/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /es.piˈɡaɾ/

espigar (first-person singular present espigo, past participle espigat)

1. (intransitive, botany) to ear (to put forth ears in growing)

   Synonym: espiguejar

• espiga

• “espigar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “espigar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “espigar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “espigar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Galician-Portuguese espigar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa María), from Latin spīcāre.

• IPA^(key): [espiˈɣaɾ]

espigar (first-person singular present espigo, first-person singular preterite espiguei, past participle espigado)

1. (transitive) to glean
2. (intransitive, botany) to ear (to put forth ears in growing)
3. (intransitive, figuratively) to grow

• Note: espig- are changed to espigu- before front vowels (e).

• “espigar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “espigar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “espigar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “espigar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “espigar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Galician-Portuguese espigar, from Latin spīcāre.

espigar (first-person singular present espigo, first-person singular preterite espiguei, past participle espigado)

1. (intransitive) to grow
2. inflection of espigar:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

From Latin spīcāre.

• IPA^(key): /espiˈɡaɾ/ [es.piˈɣ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧pi‧gar

espigar (first-person singular present espigo, first-person singular preterite espigué, past participle espigado)

1. (transitive) to glean
2. (intransitive, botany) to ear (to put forth ears in growing)

• “espigar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014