columpiar

== Spanish == === Etymology === From Old Leonese columbiar, from Ancient Greek κολυμβάω (kolumbáō, “to dive, plunge”) (with semantic shift "dive" > "swing"), from κόλυμβος (kólumbos, “little grebe”), a bird known for its diving skills. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kolumˈpjaɾ/ [ko.lũmˈpjaɾ] Rhymes: -aɾ Syllabification: co‧lum‧piar === Verb === columpiar (first-person singular present columpio, first-person singular preterite columpié, past participle columpiado) to swing (pronominal, colloquial) blunder, mess up, screw up (make an embarrassing mistake) Synonyms: meter la pata, equivocarse ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === === Further reading === “columpiar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025