cegar

cegar (first-person singular indicative present cego, past participle cegáu)

1. (transitive) to blind (make temporarily or permanently blind)

• ciegu

Inherited from Latin caecāre, a verb based on caecus 'blind' (adj.).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [səˈɣa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [seˈɣaɾ]

cegar (first-person singular present cego, first-person singular preterite ceguí, past participle cegat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (transitive) to blind
2. (transitive) to block off, obstruct
   • 1938, Lluís Nicolau d'Olwer, El pont de la mar blava:

     En aquests estanys, ara mig cegats per la sorra, va recolzar-se durant molts segles un dels més forts imperis comercials que mai han existit.

     In these pools, now half filled with sand, rested for several centuries one of the most powerful commercial empires which has ever existed.

• cegament
• encegar

• cec

• “cegar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cegar, from Latin caecāre (“to blind”), from caecus (“blind”). Compare Portuguese, Asturian, Spanish, and Catalan cegar.

cegar (first-person singular present cego, first-person singular preterite ceguei, past participle cegado)

1. to blind

Inherited from Latin caecāre (“to blind”).

• IPA^(key): /t͡se.ˈɡaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

cegar

1. to blind

• Galician: cegar
• Portuguese: cegar (see there for further descendants)

• Universo Cantigas - "cegar"

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cegar, from Latin caecāre (“to blind”), from caecus (“blind”). Compare Galician, Asturian, Spanish, and Catalan cegar.

• Homophone: segar
• Hyphenation: ce‧gar

cegar (first-person singular present cego, first-person singular preterite ceguei, past participle cegado)

1. (transitive) to blind, to cause blindness

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: sega

• “cegar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cegar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Old Spanish cegar, çegar, from Latin caecāre, a verb based on caecus 'blind' (adj.).

• IPA^(key): /θeˈɡaɾ/ [θeˈɣ̞aɾ] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /seˈɡaɾ/ [seˈɣ̞aɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ce‧gar
• Homophone: (Latin America, Philippines) segar

cegar (first-person singular present ciego, first-person singular preterite cegué, past participle cegado)

1. (transitive) to blind
2. (intransitive, reflexive) to go blind
3. (transitive) to block, obstruct (a passageway, etc.)
4. (transitive, poetic, literary) to ruin

   el accidente que le cegó la vida

   the accident that ruined the rest of his/her life

   (literally, “accident that ruined the life for him/her”)

• “cegar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025