/taˈpaɾ/
OrixeFrom Old Galician-Portuguese tapar, from tapa (“lid”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“plug, tap”).
- transitiveto cover or close something with a lid or obstruction
“En este dia e por estas testemoyas, se deu o pregón das bestas mullares e asnos, que os non deytasen enas viñas nen cortasen as çepas, su a pena ordenada por ho conçello etc, e que cada hun que tape o” — In this day and with these witnesses, it was proclaimed the announcements of the mules and asses, that they should not free them at the vineyards, nor cut down the grapevines under the penalty accorde
- transitiveto cork, to plug
- transitiveto obstruct an orifice
“faz cristel de huun canudo longo et groso et meteo no cuu do Cauallo, et parao ao sopee et llançalle por aquel cristel aquella decauçon tibya, et tanto que lla llançares tapalle o Cuu con estopa ou co” — prepare a enema with a long and thick cane and insert it in the ass of the horse, immobilize him and pour by the cane the lukewarm enema, and as soon as you have done that plug the ass with oakum or a
“por rasón que o cano da fonte Arcada estaua atuado e tapado ena orta do dito Pero Gomes” — because the pipe of the Arched Fountain was clogged and obstructed in Pedro Gomez's garden
- transitiveto cover something so it can’t bee seen
- transitiveto enclose, to wall
“eſta uina uos damos per taeſ cõdiçõeſ que a lauredeſ de todo lauor que [a] uina a maſter τ a tapedeſ en guyſa que nõ defaleſca per mj̃gua de tapadura” — we give you this vineyard under the condition that you work there any labour that the vineyard needs, and that you wall it so that it won't give out because of shortage of enclossing
- pronominalto cover up
Formastapo(first-person, present, singular) · tapei(first-person, preterite, singular) · tapado(participle, past) · tapar(impersonal, infinitive) · tapar(first-person, infinitive, singular) · tapares(infinitive, second-person, singular) · tapar(error-unrecognized-form, infinitive, personal, singular) · taparmos(first-person, infinitive, plural) · tapardes(infinitive, plural, second-person) · taparen(error-unrecognized-form, infinitive, personal, plural) · tapando(gerund) · tapado(error-unrecognized-form, masculine, participle, past, singular) · tapado(first-person, masculine, participle, past, singular) · tapado(masculine, participle, past, second-person, singular) · tapados(error-unrecognized-form, masculine, participle, past, plural) · tapados(first-person, masculine, participle, past, plural, second-person) · tapada(error-unrecognized-form, feminine, participle, past, singular) · tapada(feminine, first-person, participle, past, singular) · tapada(feminine, participle, past, second-person, singular) · tapadas(error-unrecognized-form, feminine, participle, past, plural)