insinuar

Learned borrowing from Latin īnsinuāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [in.si.nuˈa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [in.si.nuˈaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Homophone: insinuà

insinuar (first-person singular present insinuo, first-person singular preterite insinuí, past participle insinuat)

1. (transitive, pronominal) to insinuate, hint

• insinuació

• “insinuar”, 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
• “insinuar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “insinuar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “insinuar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Learned borrowing from Latin īnsinuāre.

insinuar (first-person singular present insinuo, first-person singular preterite insinuei, past participle insinuado)

1. to insinuate
2. to intimate

• insinuação

• “insinuar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin īnsinuāre.

• IPA^(key): /insiˈnwaɾ/ [ĩn.siˈnwaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: in‧si‧nuar

insinuar (first-person singular present insinúo, first-person singular preterite insinué, past participle insinuado)

1. insinuate

   Synonyms: aludir, sugerir

2. hint

• “insinuar”, 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