acadar

14th century. From Vulgar Latin *accapitāre. Compare Spanish recaudar.

• IPA^(key): /akaˈdaɾ/

acadar (first-person singular present acado, first-person singular preterite acadei, past participle acadado)

1. to reach; to grab; to catch
   • c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 26:

     yan elles tã longe que os nõ podo acadar

     they were so far away that he could not reach them

2. (dated) to collect or raise funds
   • 1418, Á. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 107:

     Iten que acadastes vos o dito Gil Peres das aviinças dos moleiros da ribeira de Sarela et de duas viuvas, dusentos et seseenta moravedis de moeda vella que nos avian de dar o dito anno

     Item, that you obtained from said Gil Pérez, of the agreements with the millers of the banks of the river Sarela and of two widows, two hundred and sixty maravedis of old coinage, that they ought to give to us said year

3. to meet
4. to achieve; to hit (a target)

• alcanzar

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “acadar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “acadar”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “acadar”, 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), “acadar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “acadar”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2025
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “acadar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• Joan Coromines; José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991), “recaudar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos