mergulhar

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From Old Galician-Portuguese mergullar, from Vulgar Latin *merguliāre, from Latin mergulus, diminutive of mergus (“diver; loon”), from mergō (“to dive, to plunge”). Cognate with Galician mergullar. Compare also Spanish somorgujar. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: mer‧gu‧lhar === Verb === mergulhar (first-person singular present mergulho, first-person singular preterite mergulhei, past participle mergulhado) (intransitive) to submerge (to go down in water) Synonym: submergir Antonyms: emergir, vir à tona (intransitive) to dive (to jump into water) [with em ‘into something liquid’] (figurative, intransitive) to dive (to descend or decrease sharply or steeply) Synonyms: cair, despencar (transitive) to dip (to lower something into a liquid) [with em ‘into something liquid’] Synonym: imergir (intransitive, figurative) to immerse oneself (to involve oneself deeply) [with em ‘in something’] Synonym: envolver-se (intransitive) to dive (to work as a diver) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “mergulhar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “mergulhar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026