escorregar

From Old Galician-Portuguese escorregar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), either from Vulgar Latin *excurricare, from excurro, or from es- + córrego (“brook, ravine”).

• IPA^(key): /eskoreˈɣaɾ/

escorregar (first-person singular present escorrego, first-person singular preterite escorreguei, past participle escorregado)

1. to slide (to move on a low friction surface)

   Synonyms: deslizar, esborrexer

2. to slip (to lose one’s traction on a slippery surface)

   Synonyms: deslizar, eslimar, esvarar

   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, page 125:

     quando escorrega o pee ao Cauallo na sayda da estada, ou no correr, ou no andar

     when the hoof of the horse slips when exiting the stable, or either when running, or when walking

   • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:

     Virés acò meu Dieguiño
     cando ò tempo milloràr,
     porqe si escorrega á Besta
     è esbarroufàs, alabay.

     You'll come here my little Diego
     when the weather improves
     because if the mount slips
     and you sprawl, here goes nothing!

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

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese escorregar, from Vulgar Latin *excurricāre.

• Hyphenation: es‧cor‧re‧gar

escorregar (first-person singular present escorrego, first-person singular preterite escorreguei, past participle escorregado)

1. to slide (to move on a low friction surface)

   Synonym: deslizar

2. to slip (to lose one’s traction on a slippery surface)

   Synonyms: deslizar, resvalar

3. (figuratively) to blunder