echar.
to throw, toss, cast, jettison (to release an object from one's grasp so that it moves through the air)
Meaning & usage
to throw, toss, cast, jettison (to release an object from one's grasp so that it moves through the air)
Echa los dados.
to pour (to cause to flow in a stream from a container)
Echó el agua fuera del vaso.
to put in, add
Yo le echo aceite a la ensalada.
to let out
Échalo todo.
to discharge
to dump
to emit, give off, send out
Ese animal es extraño. Echa luz cuando se siente atacado.
to kick out, expel, throw out, to send packing (to forcibly remove)
Me echaron de la fiesta.
to expel (to remove from membership)
Te vamos a echar del club de lectura.
to fire, dismiss (to terminate employment)
Al pobre lo han echado del trabajo.
to play (to participate in a sport)
Echamos un partido.
to sprout (to cause to grow from a seed)
to take, have (a look at)
Échale un ojo.
to mail, post (to send through the mail/post)
to give, bestow (a blessing); to put (a curse) on
Esa mujer me echó un mal de ojo.
to turn (a key); to slide (a bolt)
to start off, begin
to throw oneself
to lie down (to assume a reclining position)
Estaba muy cansada, así que me eché en el sofa.
to put on
Échate crema solar cuando vayas a la playa.
to begin
Se echó a llorar.
Eché a correr.
to sit on eggs
to give in, to yield
to take (a nap)
Cuando llegue a casa me voy a echar una siesta que no veas.
lie, lie down (on a bed, etc.)
sleep, take a nap
Deberías echarte un rato que te veo cansado.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-kt Proto-Indo-European *(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁kéntder. Latin iaciō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin -tō Classical Latin iactō Early Medieval Latin iectō Old Spanish echar Spanish echar Inherited from Old Spanish echar, from Early Medieval Latin iectāre, from Classical Latin iactāre. Doublet of the borrowing jactar. Cognate with Catalan gitar, Galician xeitar, French jeter, Portuguese jeito, and Sicilian jittari; alongside more distantly English jet and jut.
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