Uncertain.
pego (pluralpegos)
- (archaic, slang) Thepenis.
pego
- first-personsingularpresentindicative ofpegar
Belapego (Melanerpes pulcher)FromItalianpicchio,Latinpicus. CompareInterlinguapico.
pego (accusative singularpegon,pluralpegoj,accusative pluralpegojn)
- woodpecker
Perhaps from a non-Celticsubstrate language related toLusitanian, fromProto-Indo-European*peyḱ-(“to paint, mark, embroider”).
pego (femininepega,masculine pluralpegos,feminine pluralpegas)
- variegated
- Synonyms:apigarado,multicolor,pégaro,pinto
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pego”, inDicionario 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), “pego”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pego”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN
pego
- first-personsingularpresentindicative ofpegar
pego (pluralpegi)
- woodpecker
Frompega, fromLatinpica.
- pêgo(pre-reform spelling)
- Rhymes:-eɡu
- Hyphenation:pe‧go
pego m (pluralpegos)
- Eurasian oystercatcher(Haematopus ostralegus)
FromOld Galician-Portuguesepeego, fromLatinpelagus(“sea”), fromAncient Greekπέλαγος(pélagos).Doublet ofpélago.
- Rhymes:-ɛɡu
- Hyphenation:pe‧go
pego m (pluralpegos)
- thebottom of thesea
- thedeepestpoint of abody of water
- anunderwatercave
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
- Rhymes:-ɛɡu
- Hyphenation:pe‧go
pego
- first-personsingularpresentindicative ofpegar
- pêgo(pre-reform spelling)
pego (short participle,femininepega,masculine pluralpegos,feminine pluralpegas)
- (Brazil)pastparticiple ofpegar
pego (Cyrillic spellingпего)
- vocativesingular ofpega
- IPA(key): /ˈpeɡo/[ˈpe.ɣ̞o]
- Rhymes:-eɡo
- Syllabification:pe‧go
Deverbal frompegar.
pego m (pluralpegos)
- (card games) atrick consisting of taking twocards from the pack instead of one
pego
- first-personsingularpresentindicative ofpegar