allegar

• llegar (Eastern Asturias)
• chegar (Patsuezu, Cangas del Narcea, Tox, Valle Gordo, A Estierna)
• achegar (Patsuezu)

From Old Leonese allegar and this from Latin plicāre, present active infinitive of plicō. See also the doublet plegar.

• IPA^(key): /aʎeˈɡaɾ/, [a.ʎeˈɣ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: a‧lle‧gar

allegar (first-person singular indicative present allego, past participle allegáu)

1. to arrive

   Synonym: aportar

   • 1843, Juan Junquera Huergo, Llos Trabayos de Chinticu‎^[1]:

     A Xixon allegué aína

     I arrived early in Gijón

   • 1878, Xuan Acebal, El amor del hogar‎^[2]:

     Pos prúyei allegar cuanto más ina,

     Because he's worried about arriving as early as possible,

2. to reach
   • 1878, Justo Álvarez Amandi, Beatus Ille‎^[3]:

     si quiciavis a aquesti mar allega,

     if perhaps it reaches this sea

3. to bring closer

   Synonyms: arimar, acercar, averar

   • 1634-1662?, Antón de Marirreguera, Diálogo Político‎^[4]:

     Que aquel que s'allega al sol,

     that he who gets closer to the sun

4. to relate, become related

   Synonym: emparentar

• allegáu

allegar

1. first-person singular future passive indicative of allegō

Inherited from Latin applicāre. Compare the doublets aplegar and aplicar.

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧lle‧gar

allegar (first-person singular present allego, first-person singular preterite allegué, past participle allegado)

1. (transitive) to collect, gather, collect up, bring together
   • 1870, Carlos Ramírez de Arellano, El licenciado Pedro de La-Gasca, Chapter 6:

     algún afán por allegar riquezas

     a hankering for gathering riches

2. (reflexive) to adopt (an idea, ideology etc.)
3. (reflexive) to approach
4. (intransitive or reflexive) to arrive, reach, get to
   • 1926, Roberto Arlt, “Los trabajos y los días”, in El juguete rabioso:

     —El señor Souza dice que se allegue dentro de media hora.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “allegar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28