alambicar
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Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the noun alambique (“still”), from Arabic إنبيق (’inbīq, “still”), from Ancient Greek ἄμβιξ (ámbiks).
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
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the noun alambique (“still”), from Arabic إنبيق (’inbīq, “still”), from Ancient Greek ἄμβιξ (ámbiks).
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]
- Rule: c becomes a qu before every e.
Conjugation of alambicar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
1 Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Other verbs with this conjugation:
Categories:
- Galician terms derived from Arabic
- Galician terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Galician lemmas
- Galician verbs
- Galician verbs ending in -ar
- 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)
