especar

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From espeque +‎ -ar. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: es‧pe‧car === Verb === especar (first-person singular present especo, first-person singular preterite espequei, past participle especado) to sustain with handspikes (figuratively) to protect, to safeguard to become still and firm like a handspike ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “especar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “especar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026