espreitar

== Galician == === Etymology === Obscure. From Old Galician-Portuguese espreitar, itself perhaps from Old Occitan espleitar (“to exploit”), or either from Latin spectāre (“to observe”), or more likely explicitare. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /espɾejˈtaɾ/ === Verb === espreitar (first-person singular present espreito, first-person singular preterite espreitei, past participle espreitado) (transitive) to peek at, to peer, to skulk (intransitive) to lurk ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Synonyms ==== agaitar, aseitar, axexar, esculcar, espiar === References === Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “espreitar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “espreitar”, 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), “espreitar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega “espreitar”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026 Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “espreitar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN == Portuguese == === Etymology === From Old Galician-Portuguese espreitar, probably from Vulgar Latin *explicitāre, frequentative of explicāre. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: es‧prei‧tar === Verb === espreitar (first-person singular present espreito, first-person singular preterite espreitei, past participle espreitado) (transitive) to peek at; to peer (to observe while hidden) (intransitive) to lurk (to move about in hiding) (transitive) to analyse; to examine (to inspect carefully or critically) Synonyms: analisar, examinar, investigar ==== Conjugation ==== ==== See also ==== espiar === Further reading === “espreitar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “espreitar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026