pegamento

Spanish

Etymology

From pegar +‎ -mento.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /peɡaˈmento/ [pe.ɣ̞aˈmẽn̪.t̪o]
Rhymes: -ento
Syllabification: pe‧ga‧men‧to

Noun

pegamento m (plural pegamentos)

glue, adhesive
Synonyms: (especially in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Uruguay) goma, (Colombia) pegante, (Puerto Rico, Venezuela) pega, (Mexico) resistol
(figurative) glue

Usage notes

For natural glue paste made from horse hooves, use cola. Pegamento generally refers to synthetically-produced glue.

Derived terms

barra de pegamento (“glue stick”) (Spain)
barrita de pegamento (“glue stick [for a glue gun]”)
pegamento en barra (“glue stick”) (Mexico, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru)

Related terms

Further reading

“pegamento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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