verb/koˈxeɾ/
to take, catch, hold, to get, to seize; to pick, harvest; to fish; to seize, arrest; to overtake; to get (a joke)
“Tengo que coger el tren.” — I have a train to catch.
Synonyms: agarrarse, tomar, prender, asir, cosechar, recolectar, pescar, atrapar
Inherited from Latin colligere (“to collect, to gather”). Cognate with Portuguese colher, French cueillir, Sicilian cògghiri, and also with English cull, coil, college, and collect. Compare also the borrowed doublet colegir. Not related to Latin cōgere, coagere (“to assemble”).