afinar

From a- +‎ fi +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.fiˈna]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.fiˈnaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

afinar (first-person singular present afino, first-person singular preterite afiní, past participle afinat)

1. (transitive) to refine
2. (transitive) to tune (to modify a musical instrument)
3. (pronominal) to approach

• afinador
• afinament
• afinat

• “afinar”, 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
• “afinar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “afinar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “afinar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /afiˈnaɾ/ [a.fiˈnaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: a‧fi‧nar

afinar (first-person singular present afino, first-person singular preterite afinei, past participle afinado)

1. (transitive) to refine
2. (transitive) to tune (to modify a musical instrument)

• fino

• “afinar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “afinar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

afinar

1. to let (someone) starve

afinar

1. to refine
2. to purify

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 28.

From a- +‎ fino +‎ -ar, influenced by French affiner.^[1]

afinar (first-person singular present afino, first-person singular preterite afinei, past participle afinado)

1. (transitive) to thin (to make thinner)

   Synonym: adelgaçar

2. (intransitive) to thin (to become thinner)

   Synonym: adelgaçar

3. (music) to tune (to modify a musical instrument)

• desafinar

• fino

• Macanese: afinâ

• “afinar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “afinar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “afinar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From fino. Compare archaic English affine (“to refine”).

• IPA^(key): /afiˈnaɾ/ [a.fiˈnaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧fi‧nar

afinar (first-person singular present afino, first-person singular preterite afiné, past participle afinado)

1. (transitive) to refine, to fine-tune
2. (transitive) to tune (to modify a musical instrument)

   Synonym: entonar

• “afinar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024