# pego
## English
### Etymology

Uncertain.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈpiːɡəʊ/

### Noun

pego (plural pegos)
* (archaic, slang) The penis.
** 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 758:Lately, he has come to dread Sugarʼs overtures of love, for his pego has remained flaccid when he would most wish to have use of it.

### Anagrams

* poge

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈpɛ.ɣu]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpe.ɣo]

### Verb

pego
* first-person singular present indicative of pegar

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Italian picchio, Latin picus. Compare Interlingua pico.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [ˈpeɡo]
* Rhymes: -eɡo
* Hyphenation: pe‧go

### Noun

pego (accusative singular pegon, plural pegoj, accusative plural pegojn)
* woodpecker

#### Hyponyms

* birdo

## Galician
### Etymology 1

Perhaps from a non-Celtic substrate language related to Lusitanian, from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“to paint, mark, embroider”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpeɣʊ]

#### Adjective

pego (feminine pega, masculine plural pegos, feminine plural pegas)
* variegated
    Synonyms: apigarado, multicolor, pégaro, pinto

##### Related terms

* apigarado
* pégaro

#### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pego”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pego”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pego”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

pego
* first-person singular present indicative of pegar

## Ido
### Noun

pego (plural pegi)
* woodpecker

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

From pega, from Latin pica.

#### Alternative forms

* pêgo (pre-reform)

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpe.ɡu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpe.ɡu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpe.ɡo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpe.ɡu/ [ˈpe.ɣu]
* Rhymes: -eɡu
* Hyphenation: pe‧go

#### Noun

pego m (plural pegos)
* Eurasian oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)

### Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese peego, from Latin pelagus (“sea”), from Ancient Greek πέλαγος (pélagos). Doublet of pélago.

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɛ.ɡu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɛ.ɡu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɛ.ɡo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpɛ.ɡu/ [ˈpɛ.ɣu]
* Rhymes: -ɛɡu
* Hyphenation: pe‧go

#### Noun

pego m (plural pegos)
* the bottom of the sea
* the deepest point of a body of water
* an underwater cave

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɛ.ɡu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɛ.ɡu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɛ.ɡo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpɛ.ɡu/ [ˈpɛ.ɣu]
* Rhymes: -ɛɡu
* Hyphenation: pe‧go

#### Verb

pego
* first-person singular present indicative of pegar

### Etymology 4
#### Alternative forms

* pêgo (pre-reform)

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpe.ɡu/, /ˈpɛ.ɡu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpe.ɡu/, /ˈpɛ.ɡu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpe.ɡo/, /ˈpɛ.ɡo/
* Rhymes: -eɡu, -ɛɡu
* Hyphenation: pe‧go

#### Participle

pego (short participle, feminine pega, masculine plural pegos, feminine plural pegas)
* (Brazil) past participle of pegar

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

pego (Cyrillic spelling пего)
* vocative singular of pega

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpeɡo/ [ˈpe.ɣ̞o]
* Rhymes: -eɡo
* Syllabification: pe‧go

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from pegar.

#### Noun

pego m (plural pegos)
* (card games) a trick consisting of taking two cards from the pack instead of one

##### Derived terms

* dar el pego

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

pego
* first-person singular present indicative of pegar

### Further reading

* “pego”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10