apalpar

apalpar

Galician

Alternative forms

• palpar

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese palpar, borrowed from Latin palpāre (“to touch softly”).[1] Cognate with Portuguese apalpar, Spanish palpar. Doublet of poupar, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /apalˈpaɾ/

Verb

apalpar (first-person singular present apalpo, first-person singular preterite apalpei, past participle apalpado)

1. (intransitive) to touch, to feel (transitive: to sense by touch)
   • c1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 280:

     Madre, sabes tu que Esau, meu yrmão he veloso et eu nõ, mays som lem, et se meu padre me apalpar et souber que sóóm eu, medo ey que coyde queo quis [excarnesçer], et em lugar de bendiçõ ey medo que me maldiga.

     Mother, you know that Esau, my brother, is hairy, but not me, I'm hairless; and if my father would touch me and find that it's me, I fear that he would think that I was mocking him, and instead of his blessing I would have his curse

   • 1390, José Luís Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 226:

     Et os angeos que yam na nuve en cõpana dos apostolos çegarõ todos aqueles judeus, et hũus cayam en terra, et d'eles dauã cõ suas cabeças por las paredes, et os outros andauã aapalpando quando as pedras, quando as paredes, por hu yam hir.

     And the angels who were in the cloud in company of the apostles blinded those Jews, and some of them fell to the ground, and of those some hit their heads against the walls, and the rest were feeling now the stones, now the walls, for knowing where to go

   Synonym: poupar

2. to grope (to search by feeling)

   Synonym: poupar

Conjugation

Conjugation of apalpar

	singular			plural
person	first	second	third	first	second	third
Infinitive	eu	ti	el/ela/Vde.	nós	vós	eles/elas/Vdes.
impersonal	apalpar
personal	apalpar	apalpares	apalpar	apalparmos	apalpardes	apalparen
Gerund
	apalpando
Past participle	singular			plural
masculine	apalpado			apalpados
feminine	apalpada			apalpadas
Indicative	eu	ti	el/ela/Vde.	nós	vós	eles/elas/Vdes.
present	apalpo	apalpas	apalpa	apalpamos	apalpades	apalpan
imperfect	apalpaba	apalpabas	apalpaba	apalpabamos	apalpabades	apalpaban
preterite	apalpei	apalpaches	apalpou	apalpamos	apalpastes	apalparon
pluperfect	apalpara	apalparas	apalpara	apalparamos	apalparades	apalparan
future	apalparei	apalparás	apalpará	apalparemos	apalparedes	apalparán
conditional	apalparía	apalparías	apalparía	apalpariamos	apalpariades	apalparían
Subjunctive	eu	ti	el/ela/Vde.	nós	vós	eles/elas/Vdes.
present	apalpe	apalpes	apalpe	apalpemos	apalpedes	apalpen
preterite	apalpase	apalpases	apalpase	apalpásemos	apalpásedes	apalpasen
future	apalpar	apalpares	apalpar	apalparmos	apalpardes	apalparen
Imperative	–	ti	el/ela/Vde.	nós	vós	eles/elas/Vdes.
affirmative	–	apalpa	apalpe	apalpemos	apalpade	apalpen
negative	–	apalpes	apalpe	apalpemos	apalpedes	apalpen

Derived terms

• Apalpador
• ás apalpadas

References

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

1. Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “palpar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese, borrowed from Latin palpāre. Doublet of palpar and poupar.

Verb

apalpar (first-person singular present apalpo, first-person singular preterite apalpei, past participle apalpado)

1. (intransitive) feel (transitive: to sense by touch)

   Synonym: tocar

2. grope (to search by feeling)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of apalpar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	apalpar
Personal	apalpar	apalpares	apalpar	apalparmos	apalpardes	apalparem
Gerund
	apalpando
Past participle
Masculine	apalpado			apalpados
Feminine	apalpada			apalpadas
Indicative
Present	apalpo	apalpas	apalpa	apalpamos	apalpais	apalpam
Imperfect	apalpava	apalpavas	apalpava	apalpávamos	apalpáveis	apalpavam
Preterite	apalpei	apalpaste	apalpou	apalpamos1, apalpámos2	apalpastes	apalparam
Pluperfect	apalpara	apalparas	apalpara	apalpáramos	apalpáreis	apalparam
Future	apalparei	apalparás	apalpará	apalparemos	apalpareis	apalparão
Conditional
	apalparia	apalparias	apalparia	apalparíamos	apalparíeis	apalpariam
Subjunctive
Present	apalpe	apalpes	apalpe	apalpemos	apalpeis	apalpem
Imperfect	apalpasse	apalpasses	apalpasse	apalpássemos	apalpásseis	apalpassem
Future	apalpar	apalpares	apalpar	apalparmos	apalpardes	apalparem
Imperative
Affirmative		apalpa	apalpe	apalpemos	apalpai	apalpem
Negative (não)		não apalpes	não apalpe	não apalpemos	não apalpeis	não apalpem

¹Brazil.
²Portugal.