contaminar

Borrowed from Latin contāmināre.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kun.tə.miˈna]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kon.tə.miˈna]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kon.ta.miˈnaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

contaminar (first-person singular present contamino, first-person singular preterite contaminí, past participle contaminat)

1. to contaminate

• contaminació
• contaminant

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

Learned borrowing from Latin contāmināre.

contaminar (first-person singular present contamino, first-person singular preterite contaminei, past participle contaminado)

1. (transitive) to contaminate (to make something dangerous or toxic by introducing impurities or foreign matter)
2. to contaminate, to corrupt (to make unfit for use by the introduction of unwholesome or undesirable elements)

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

Learned borrowing from Latin contāmināre.

• Hyphenation: con‧ta‧mi‧nar

contaminar (first-person singular present contamino, first-person singular preterite contaminei, past participle contaminado)

1. to contaminate

• contaminação
• contaminante

Borrowed from Latin contāmināre.

• IPA^(key): /kontamiˈnaɾ/ [kõn̪.t̪a.miˈnaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: con‧ta‧mi‧nar

contaminar (first-person singular present contamino, first-person singular preterite contaminé, past participle contaminado)

1. (transitive) to contaminate
2. (transitive) to corrupt

   Synonym: corromper

3. (transitive) to profane

   Synonym: profanar

• “contaminar”, 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