colocar

Borrowed from Latin collocare, present active infinitive of collocō (“place, put, assemble”). Compare the inherited doublet colgar.

colocar (first-person singular indicative present coloco, past participle colocáu)

1. to put, place
2. to tidy, tidy up

• collocar (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin collocare, present active infinitive of collocō (“place, put, assemble”). Compare the inherited doublet colgar.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): [kuluˈkaɾ]
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): [koloˈka(ʁ)]

colocar (first-person singular present indicative coloco, past participle colocado)

1. (transitive) to place; to put

   Coloca as chaves em cima da mesa, faz favor. ― Put the keys on the table, please.

   Synonyms: pôr (more formal), botar (informal)

   Antonyms: tirar, retirar

2. (transitive) to put [in a situation]

   Não reclame, pois foi você mesmo que se colocou nessa situação. ― Don’t complain, you put yourself in this situation.

   Synonyms: pôr, deixar

3. (transitive) to hire; to employ

   Synonyms: empregar (more common), contratar (more common)

4. (transitive) to invest (to commit capital in the hope of financial return)

   Synonyms: investir (more common), aplicar (more common)

5. (usually takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive with em or entre (with a plural object)) to place (to earn a given spot in a competition’s result)

   Ele se colocou em último lugar na maratona. ― He got last place in the marathon.

   É praticamente impossível se colocar entre os três primeiros. ― It’s nearly impossible to place in the top three positions.

   Synonym: ganhar

6. (transitive) to put forth [a question]

   A entrevistadora colocou uma pergunta interessante. ― The interviewer put forth an interesting question.

7. first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of colocar
8. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of colocar
9. first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of colocar
10. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of colocar

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:colocar.

• LUFT, Celso Pedro. Microdicionário de língua portuguesa Luft. São Paulo, Brazil: Ática, 2000. →ISBN

Borrowed from Latin collocare, present active infinitive of collocō (“place, put, assemble”). Compare the inherited doublet colgar.

• IPA^(key): /koloˈkaɾ/

colocar (first-person singular present coloco, first-person singular preterite coloqué, past participle colocado)

1. to place
2. to put

   Synonym: poner

3. to get in

   No pude colocar palabras. ― I couldn't get a word in edgeways.

4. (reflexive, slang) to take drugs
5. (transitive, slang) to intoxicate (stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol)

• c becomes qu before e.

• colocación