alambicar
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Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the noun alambique (“still”), from Arabic إِنْبِيق (ʾinbīq, “still”), from Ancient Greek ἄμβιξ (ámbix).
Verb[edit]
alambicar (first-person singular present alambico, first-person singular preterite alambiquei, past participle alambicado)
- to distill
- to complicate
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of alambicar
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the noun alambique (“still”), from Arabic الإِنْبِيق (al-ʾinbīq, “still”), from Ancient Greek ἄμβιξ (ámbix).
Verb[edit]
alambicar (first-person singular present indicative alambico, past participle alambicado)
- to distill
- (by extension) to refine
- (by extension) to complicate excessively
- to scrutinize, to examine closely
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to become pretentious
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of the Portuguese -ar verb alambicar
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the noun alambique (“still”), from Arabic إِنْبِيق (ʾinbīq, “still”), from Ancient Greek ἄμβιξ (ámbix).
Verb[edit]
alambicar (first-person singular present alambico, first-person singular preterite alambiqué, past participle alambicado)
- to distill
- to scrutinize, to examine closely
- to complicate excessively
Conjugation[edit]
- c becomes qu before e.
Categories:
- Galician terms derived from Arabic
- Galician terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Galician lemmas
- Galician verbs
- Galician verbs ending in -ar
- Portuguese terms derived from Arabic
- Portuguese terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese verbs
- Spanish terms derived from Arabic
- Spanish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish verbs
- Spanish verbs ending in -ar
- Spanish verbs ending in -ar (conjugation -car)
- Spanish verbs with irregular present subjunctives
- Spanish verbs with irregular imperatives
- Spanish verbs with irregular preterite indicatives
