edificar

• edifficar, edifichar, hedificar, hedifficar, edeficar (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin aedificāre (“to build, erect, establish; to create, frame”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.ði.fiˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [e.ði.fiˈkaɾ]

edificar (first-person singular present edifico, first-person singular preterite edifiquí, past participle edificat)

1. (transitive) to build, construct
2. (transitive) to build up

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

Learned borrowing from Latin aedificāre, present active infinitive of aedificō (“I build, erect, establish; I create, frame”).

• IPA^(key): /eðifiˈkaɾ/

edificar (first-person singular present edifico, first-person singular preterite edifiquei, past participle edificado)

1. to build
   • 1327, foundational inscription of the church of Santa María a Nova, Noia, Galicia:

     Esta igleja edificou e sagrou Don frei Beringel arcibispo de Santiago en 28 dias de janeiro era MCCCLXV (AD 1327) e foi procurador Pero Bochon desta obra

     This church was built and consecrated by friar Beringel, archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, 28th of january, 1327; Pedro Bochón was the master of this work

• “edificar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “edificar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “edificar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Learned borrowing from Latin aedificāre (“to build, to erect, to establish; to create, to frame”).

• Hyphenation: e‧di‧fi‧car

edificar (first-person singular present edifico, first-person singular preterite edifiquei, past participle edificado)

1. (transitive) to build

• edificação

• “edificar” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “edificar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “edificar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “edificar” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “edificar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from Latin aedificāre (“to build, erect, establish; to create, frame”).

• IPA^(key): /edifiˈkaɾ/ [e.ð̞i.fiˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: e‧di‧fi‧car

edificar (first-person singular present edifico, first-person singular preterite edifiqué, past participle edificado)

1. (transitive) to build
2. (transitive) to set a good example

• “edificar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014