segundear
Spanish, verb[seɣ̞ũn̪d̪eˈaɾ]
segundear is a Spanish verb meaning “to support or back someone up in a secondary role” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Variante informal de secundar (asistir, cooperar)”.
What does segundear mean in English?
verb
- 1
Mexicocolloquialto support or back someone up in a secondary role.
Yo propuse la idea y él me segundeó.
- 2
Mexicocolloquialto take on a subordinate or second-best role; to play second fiddle.
Durante un foro de telenovelas, varios usuarios comentaban que algunos personajes terminaron segundeando a los protagonistas.
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Variante informal de secundar (asistir, cooperar).
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of segundear
- segundeo first-person present singular
- segundeé first-person preterite singular
- segundeado participle past
- haber segundeado impersonal infinitive
- segundeando impersonal gerund
- habiendo segundeado impersonal gerund
- segundeas second-person singular indicative
- segundeás second-person singular vos-form
- segundea third-person singular indicative
- segundeamos first-person plural indicative
- segundeáis second-person plural indicative
- segundean third-person plural indicative
- segundeaba first-person singular indicative
- segundeabas second-person singular indicative
- segundeábamos first-person plural indicative
- segundeabais second-person plural indicative
- segundeaban third-person plural indicative
- segundeaste second-person singular indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce segundear?
- [seɣ̞ũn̪d̪eˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is segundear in Spanish?
segundear appears about once in every 30 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).