crucificar

Learned borrowing from Late Latin crucificāre, from Latin crucifigō.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kɾu.si.fiˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kɾu.si.fiˈkaɾ]

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crucificar (first-person singular present crucifico, first-person singular preterite crucifiquí, past participle crucificat)

1. (transitive) to crucify

• crucificació
• crucifixió

• “crucificar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “crucificar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “crucificar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “crucificar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Galician-Portuguese crucifigar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin crucificō, from Latin crucifigō.

• IPA^(key): [kɾuθifiˈkaɾ]

crucificar (first-person singular present crucifico, first-person singular preterite crucifiquei, past participle crucificado)

1. (transitive) to crucify; to nail to a cross

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cruçificar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “crucifigar”, 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), “cruçifi”, 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), “crucificar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “crucificar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “crucificar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Learned borrowing from Late Latin crucificō, from Latin crucifigō.

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crucificar

1. to crucify (attach to a cross)

• cruxificar

From Old Galician-Portuguese crucifigar, from Late Latin crucificāre, from Latin crucifigō. By surface analysis, cruz +‎ -ificar.

• Hyphenation: cru‧ci‧fi‧car

crucificar (first-person singular present crucifico, first-person singular preterite crucifiquei, past participle crucificado)

1. to crucify (to execute a person by nailing to a crucifix)

• cruz

• “crucificar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “crucificar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “crucificar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Learned borrowing from Late Latin crucificāre, from Latin crucifigō.

• IPA^(key): /kɾuθifiˈkaɾ/ [kɾu.θi.fiˈkaɾ] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /kɾusifiˈkaɾ/ [kɾu.si.fiˈkaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cru‧ci‧fi‧car

crucificar (first-person singular present crucifico, first-person singular preterite crucifiqué, past participle crucificado)

1. (transitive) to crucify, nail to a cross
2. (transitive) to torment

• “crucificar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025