estragar

13th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese estragar, from Vulgar Latin *stragāre, from Latin strāges (“defeat, slaughter”).

• IPA^(key): /estɾaˈɣaɾ/

estragar (first-person singular present estrago, first-person singular preterite estraguei, past participle estragado)

1. (transitive) to spoil, damage, corrupt, waste
   • 1295, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 11:

     ouverõ alj outrosi muy grãdes lides conos mouros, et uençerõnos et astragarõ toda essa terra a ferro et a fogo

     they had there other large battles with the Moors, and they defeated them and wasted all that land with fire and iron

   As chuvias estragaron a colleita. ― The rains ruined the harvest.

2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to go bad (of foods and commodities)

   Esas laranxas estragáronse. ― These oranges have gone bad.

   Synonym: gorar

• estrago

• “estragar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “strag” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “estragar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “estragar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “estragar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Portuguese estragar, from Vulgar Latin *stragāre, from Latin *strago, from Latin strāges (“defeat, slaughter”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /iʃtɾɐˈɣaɾ/

estragar (first-person singular present indicative estrago, past participle estragado)

1. to spoil, damage, corrupt

   As chuvas estragaram a colheita. ― The rains ruined the harvest.

2. to botch, bungle

   Ele não estraga nada. ― He doesn't screw anything up.

3. to go bad (of foods and commodities)

   Essas laranjas estragaram. ― These oranges have gone bad.

From Old Spanish estragar, from Vulgar Latin *stragāre, from Latin strāges (“defeat, slaughter”).

• IPA^(key): /estɾaˈɡaɾ/, [est̪ɾaˈɣaɾ]

estragar (first-person singular present estrago, first-person singular preterite estragué, past participle estragado)

1. to corrupt, ruin, spoil, ravage

• Rule: g becomes a gu before e.

• estrago