advogar

== Portuguese == === Etymology === Semi-learned borrowing from Latin advocāre. Doublet of avocar and avogar. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: ad‧vo‧gar === Verb === advogar (first-person singular present advogo, first-person singular preterite advoguei, past participle advogado) (intransitive) to work as a lawyer; to practice (intransitive) to defend; to represent (to make legal defence of) [with por ‘someone’] Synonym: defender (transitive or intransitive) to advocate (to express or encourage support for) [transitive or with por ‘something’] ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== advocacia advocatura advogado === Further reading === “advogar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “advogar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026