arcar

• arquear, arquejar

• Hyphenation: ar‧car

From arca (“ark”) +‎ -ar.

arcar (first-person singular present arco, first-person singular preterite arquei, past participle arcado)

1. (intransitive) to shoulder [with com]
2. (intransitive) to afford [with com]
3. (transitive or intransitive) to tussle
4. (intransitive) to pant (to breathe quickly)

From Latin arcuāre (“to bend like a bow”). By surface analysis, arco (“arch”) +‎ -ar.

arcar (first-person singular present arco, first-person singular preterite arquei, past participle arcado)

1. (intransitive) to bow (become bent)
2. (transitive) to bow (bend a thing)
3. (transitive) to hoop (to bind using a hoop)

• “arcar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “arcar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “arcar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “arcar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Probably from arc +‎ -ar or possibly from Vulgar Latin *arcārius, alteration of arcuārius (“maker of bows”), from Latin arcus.

arcar m (plural arcari)

1. (archaic) maker or vendor of bows