intricar

Galician

Alternative forms

• intrincar

Etymology

15th century. From Latin intricare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /intɾiˈkaɾ/

Verb

1. (transitive) to tangle, embroil
   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé (ed.), Rufus, Jordanus: Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 141:

     et dos ditos poos deuen vsar nos llugarres neruossos et jntrincados de veas et darterias porque se deuen cauidar de fazer en taes lugares talladuras nen queimaduras a nehua gisa

     and the aforementioned powders must be used in the [horse's] parts with nerves and entangled with veins and arteries, because one must refrain from cutting and burning those place in any way

2. (transitive, figurative) to obfuscate, confuse

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “jntrincado”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /intɾiˈkaɾ/ [ĩn̪.t̪ɾiˈkaɾ]

Verb

1. Alternative form of intrincar