pinchar
Spanish
verb
Definitions
- to puncture, prick, pierce
- to poke
- (animals, needle) to sting
- (graphical user interface) to click
- (colloquial) to flirt
- (colloquial) to get flirt
- (music) to deejay
- (telephony) to call up by telephone and suspend before a conversation is initiated in order to make the receiver call back
- (telephony) putting some tool for hearing in secret private conversation by phone; eavesdropping
- (intransitive) to slip up fail
- (colloquial) to fuck
- (colloquial) to wind up, pester
Etymology
Derived from Latin *punctiāre, punctus (pierced, striped, pricked, punctured, stippled, marked with points).
Origin
Latin
punctus
Gloss
pierced, striped, pricked, punctured, stippled, marked with points
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *punctiāre Latin
- albipunctus Latin
- puncta Latin
- puncticollis Latin
- punctifrons Latin
- punctipennis Latin
- punctorium Latin
- punctuare Latin
- punctus Latin
- punctuāre Latin
- pungō Latin
- bonde French
- disco Spanish, Castilian
- pinchadiscos Spanish, Castilian
- pinchazo Spanish, Castilian
- point Old French
- bont Middle Dutch
- bunt Middle High German
- Punkt Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ponchar Occitan
- pincha Kabuverdianu
- pintca Guinea-Bissau Creole