carícia

See also: caricia and cariciá

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [kəˈɾi.si.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [kaˈɾi.si.a]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -isia

Noun

carícia f (plural carícies)

1. caress
2. stroke, pet

Derived terms

• acariciar

Further reading

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “carícia”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• “carícia”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “carícia”, 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

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *keh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-rós

Proto-Italic *kāros

Latin cārus

Italian caro

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin -itia

Italian -ezza

Italian carezzabor.

Portuguese carícia

Borrowed from Italian carezza.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈɾi.sjɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈɾi.sjɐ/

• Hyphenation: ca‧rí‧ci‧a

Noun

carícia f (plural carícias)

1. caress
2. cuddle

Further reading

• “carícia”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “carícia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026