comunicar

Aragonese

Etymology

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Verb

comunicar

1. (transitive) to communicate

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “comunicar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin commūnicāre, present active infinitive of commūnicō. Compare the inherited doublet combregar (“give or receive Communion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ku.mu.niˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ko.mu.niˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ko.mu.niˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Verb

comunicar (first-person singular present comunico, first-person singular preterite comuniquí, past participle comunicat)

1. to communicate

Related terms

• comunicació
• comunicatiu

Further reading

• “comunicar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “comunicar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “comunicar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “comunicar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin commūnicāre, present active infinitive of commūnicō. Compare the doublet comungar.

Verb

1. to communicate.
2. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of comunicar
3. first/third-person singular personal infinitive of comunicar

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• communicar (superseded)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin commūnicāre, present active infinitive of commūnicō (“I communicate; I share”), from communis (“common; public”). Cognate of comungar (“to give communion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko.ˌmu.ni.ˈka(ɹ)/, /ku.ˌmu.ni.ˈka(ɹ)/
• IPA^(key): /ko.ˌmu.ni.ˈka(ɻ)/
• IPA^(key): /ku.mu.ni.ˈkaɾ/
• Hyphenation: co‧mu‧ni‧car

Verb

1. to communicate (impart or transmit)

   Synonyms: contagiar, repassar, transmitir

2. to communicate (impart information or knowledge of; to make known)

   Synonyms: divulgar, noticiar

3. to communicate (express or convey ideas)

   Synonym: transmitir

Derived terms

• comunicar-se

Related terms

• comunicação
• comunicacional
• comunicado
• comunicador
• comunicante
• comunicativamente
• comunicativo
• comunicável
• comunicologia
• comunicólogo

 

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin commūnicāre, present active infinitive of commūnicō. Compare the inherited doublet comulgar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /komuniˈkaɾ/ [ko.mu.niˈkaɾ]

Verb

1. communicate

Related terms

• comunicación
• comunicado
• comunicativo