apertar

From Old Galician-Portuguese apretar, perhaps from Late Latin appectorāre, from Latin pectus.

• IPA^(key): [apeɾˈtaɾ]

apertar (first-person singular present aperto, first-person singular preterite apertei, past participle apertado)

1. (transitive) to press
2. (transitive) to squeeze
3. (transitive) to tighten
4. (transitive) to shake hands
5. (transitive) to hug
6. (transitive) to wring

   Synonyms: espremer, premer

7. (transitive) to pressure, put pressure on
8. (intransitive) to hurry
9. (intransitive, of shoes) to be tight

• “apertar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “apert” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “apertar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “apertar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “apertar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “apertar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from French apertura, German аперту́ра, Italian apertura, ultimately from Latin apertus, perfect passive participle of aperiō (“I open; I uncover”). Compare Esperanto aperti.

• IPA^(key): /aperˈtar/

apertar (present apertas, past apertis, future apertos, conditional apertus, imperative apertez)

1. (transitive, also figuratively) to open, unclose

   Antonym: klozar

• desklozar

From Old Galician-Portuguese apretar, from Late Latin appectorāre, from Latin pectus.

• Hyphenation: a‧per‧tar

apertar (first-person singular present aperto, first-person singular preterite apertei, past participle apertado)

1. to tighten
2. to press, clasp, clamp
3. (Brazil, slang, intransitive) to roll (a joint, a marijuana cigarette)

   Synonym: bolar

   • 1986, “Malandragem Dá Um Tempo”, in Alô Malandragem, Maloca o Flagrante, performed by Bezerra da Silva:

     Vou apertar
     Mas não vou acender agora
     Se segura, malandro
     Pra fazer cabeça tem hora

     I will roll (a joint)
     But I will not light it now
     Hold yourself, malandro
     You should smoke at the right time (lit.: There is [a right] time to "make head" [smoke marijuana])

For quotations using this term, see Citations:apertar.