formicar
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /foʁ.miˈka(ʁ)/ [foɦ.miˈka(h)], /fuʁ.miˈka(ʁ)/ [fuɦ.miˈka(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /foɾ.miˈka(ɾ)/, /fuɾ.miˈka(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /foʁ.miˈka(ʁ)/ [foʁ.miˈka(χ)], /fuʁ.miˈka(ʁ)/ [fuʁ.miˈka(χ)]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /foɻ.miˈka(ɻ)/, /fuɻ.miˈka(ɻ)/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /foʁ.miˈka(ʁ)/ [foɦ.miˈka(h)]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /fuɾ.miˈkaɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /fuɾ.miˈka.ɾi/
- Hyphenation: for‧mi‧car
Verb
formicar (first-person singular present formico, first-person singular preterite formiquei, past participle formicado)
- (ornithology, rare, reflexive) to engage in anting (rubbing live ants into the feathers)
- synonym of formigar
Conjugation
Conjugation of formicar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading
- “formicar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026