picar
Spanish
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) to itch to feel itchy, to feel a need to be scratched
- to sting
- to chop
- to bite
- (culinary) to mince, to dice
- to stab; to wound
- (colloquial) to snack; to nibble; to have a bite
- to rot; to decay; to eat away; to rust
- to pique
- to crush ice
- (intransitive) to sting or be pungent to the lips or tongue, be spicy or, of a candy, very sour
- (slang) to sexually penetrate, fuck
- (reflexive) to get angry, get annoyed, take offence
- (reflexive) to turn sour
- (reflexive) to get addicted, fascinated, enraptured
Etymology
Inherited from Latin pīcus (woodpecker), *pīccāre.
Origin
Latin
*pīccāre
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- picador English
- picayune English
- pique English
- *piccus Latin
- *pīccāre Latin
- pīcus Latin
- piken German
- pikieren German
- piccarsi Italian
- picador French
- picaillon French
- picoter French
- piquage French
- pique-assiette French
- piquer French
- piquette French
- piqûre French
- repiquer French
- surpiquer French
- baya Spanish, Castilian
- madero Spanish, Castilian
- picabayas Spanish, Castilian
- picadero Spanish, Castilian
- picador Spanish, Castilian
- picadura Spanish, Castilian
- picamaderos Spanish, Castilian
- picante Spanish, Castilian
- picantería Spanish, Castilian
- picapinos Spanish, Castilian
- picapleitos Spanish, Castilian
- picatroncos Spanish, Castilian
- picazón Spanish, Castilian
- pino Spanish, Castilian
- pleito Spanish, Castilian
- sal Spanish, Castilian
- salpicadura Spanish, Castilian
- salpicar Spanish, Castilian
- tronco Spanish, Castilian
- picadeiro Portuguese
- picante Portuguese
- picar Portuguese
- picar Catalan, Valencian
- picquer Middle French
- pique Middle French
- bekatzòkk Cimbrian
- picaioun Occitan
- picar Occitan
- pika Kabuverdianu
- pika Guinea-Bissau Creole
- piquar prv