alongar

From Old Galician-Portuguese alongar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from a- +‎ longo +‎ -ar, or from Vulgar Latin *allongāre, from Late Latin elongāre, present active infinitive of elongō, from Latin longus.

• IPA^(key): [aloŋˈɡaɾ]

alongar (first-person singular present alongo, first-person singular preterite alonguei, past participle alongado)

1. (transitive) to lengthen, to elongate
2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to move away

• “alongar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “alongar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “alongar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “alongar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “alongar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

a- +‎ long +‎ -ar, or from Vulgar Latin *allongāre, from Late Latin elongāre, present active infinitive of elongō, from Latin longus.

alongar

1. to lengthen, to elongate

• alongaire
• alongament
• alongui

From a- +‎ longo +‎ -ar, or from Vulgar Latin *allongāre, from Late Latin elongāre, from Latin longus.

• Hyphenation: a‧lon‧gar

alongar (first-person singular present alongo, first-person singular preterite alonguei, past participle alongado)

1. (transitive) to elongate, lengthen
2. (transitive) to delay, defer, slow
3. (transitive) to distance, space, move away, remove from

• elongação

• “alongar” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “alongar” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “alongar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “alongar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “alongar” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “alongar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

From a- +‎ luengo +‎ -ar, or from Vulgar Latin *allongāre, from Late Latin elongāre, from Latin longus.

• IPA^(key): /alonˈɡaɾ/ [a.lõŋˈɡaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧lon‧gar

alongar (first-person singular present aluengo, first-person singular preterite alongué, past participle alongado)

1. (obsolete, transitive) to elongate, lengthen

   Synonym: alargar

• “alongar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014