caricia
Portuguese
Verb
caricia
- inflection of cariciar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈɾiθja/ [kaˈɾi.θja] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /kaˈɾisja/ [kaˈɾi.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iθja (Spain)
- Rhymes: -isja (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: ca‧ri‧cia
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Italian carezza.
Noun
caricia f (plural caricias)
Derived terms
- acariciar
- caricioso
Etymology 2
Verb
caricia
- inflection of cariciar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “caricia”, 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