especificar

Borrowed from Latin specificāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əs.pə.si.fiˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [es.pe.si.fiˈkaɾ]

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especificar (first-person singular present especifico, first-person singular preterite especifiquí, past participle especificat)

1. (transitive) to specify

• específic
• especificació

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

Learned borrowing from Late Latin specificāre. By surface analysis, específico +‎ -ar or espécie +‎ -ificar.

• Hyphenation: es‧pe‧ci‧fi‧car

especificar (first-person singular present especifico, first-person singular preterite especifiquei, past participle especificado)

1. (transitive) to specify

• especificação
• específico

• “especificar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From Latin specificāre.

• IPA^(key): /espeθifiˈkaɾ/ [es.pe.θi.fiˈkaɾ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /espesifiˈkaɾ/ [es.pe.si.fiˈkaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧pe‧ci‧fi‧car

especificar (first-person singular present especifico, first-person singular preterite especifiqué, past participle especificado)

1. (transitive) to specify

• “especificar”, 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