ficar

• ficare

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *fīg(i)cāre, frequentative based on Latin fīgere (“drive in, fix in place”).

• IPA^(key): /fiˈka(ɾ)/
• Syllabification: fi‧car
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

ficar

1. (transitive) to insert, to put in

   Fica las cosas dintro d'ixa caixa. ― Put the things in that box.

• “ficar”, in Aragonario, diccionario aragonés–castellano (in Spanish)

• aficar

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *fīg(i)cāre, frequentative based on Latin fīgere (“drive in, fix in place”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [fiˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [fiˈkaɾ]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

• Homophone: ficà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

ficar (first-person singular present fico, first-person singular preterite fiquí, past participle ficat)

1. (transitive) to insert, to put in

   Synonyms: introduir, metre, posar

   Fica les coses dins aquella capsa. ― Put the things in that box.

2. (pronominal) to meddle, to interfere

   Synonym: entrar

   No t'hi fiquis si no t'ho demanen. ― Don't get involved if they don't ask you to.

• ficar el nas

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese ficar, from Vulgar Latin *fīg(i)cāre, frequentative based on Latin fīgere (“drive in, fix in place”). Doublet of fincar.

• IPA^(key): /fiˈkaɾ/ [fiˈkɑɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: fi‧car

ficar (first-person singular present fico, first-person singular preterite fiquei, past participle ficado)

1. (intransitive) to remain; to be left
   • 1281, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Sada / A Coruña: Ediciós do Castro, page 76:

     Et depoys de uossa morte fique este casar sobredito a uosso fillo Lourenço et a una persona que uos nomeardes a uosso passamento

     And after your death, this said farmhouse will be left to your son Lourenzo and to a person that you'll appoint at the moment of your decease

   Synonym: quedar

2. (transitive) to thrust, drive
   • c. 1350, Kevin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 104:

     Et cõ grande omjldade foy ficar os geollos ante o altar

     And with great humbleness he came before the altar and kneeled [lit. "he drove his knees"]

   Synonym: espetar

4. (copulative) to become; to get; to end up

   Synonym: quedar

• fito

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ficar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ficar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ficar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ficar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ficar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese ficar (also fincar), from Vulgar Latin *fīg(i)cāre, frequentative based on Latin fīgere (“drive in, fix in place”). Doublet of fincar.

• Audio (Northern Portugal):

  (file)

ficar (first-person singular present fico, first-person singular preterite fiquei, past participle ficado)

2. (copulative) to become; to get; to end up

   Eu vou ficar rico. ― I’ll get rich.

   Ficamos com nojo daquela comida. ― We were disgusted by that food.

   Eu fiquei sem dinheiro. ― I ended up without any money.

4. (intransitive) to be, to be located [with em or another locational preposition ‘in a fixed location’]

   Synonyms: localizar, ser

   A casa dela fica na esquina desse quarteirão. ― Her house is on the corner of this block.

   Londres fica no sul da Inglaterra. ― London is in the south of England.

6. (intransitive) to stay (at); to remain (in) [with em ‘a location’]

   Ela não quis vir, ficou em casa. ― She didn’t want to come, she stayed home.

   • 2000, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Cálice de Fogo, Rocco, page 514:

     E quantos serão bastante tolos para ficar longe de mim?

     And how many will be foolish enough to stay away from me?

8. (intransitive) to remain (to be left over)

   Synonym: sobrar

   Só ficaram algumas migalhas. ― Only a few crumbs remained.

10. (intransitive) to stay (to remain in a particular place) [with em ‘a location’]

    Fiquei três dias em Munique. ― I stayed three days in Munich.

12. (figurative, intransitive) not to go any further

    Synonym: parar

    A discussão fica por aqui. ― The discussion stops here.

14. (auxiliary) forms the habitual aspect [with gerund]

    João fica lendo o dia inteiro. ― John keeps reading the whole day.

    Eu ficava falando besteira. ― I kept saying nonsense.

16. (intransitive, Brazil, slang) to have a one-night stand (sexually) [with com ‘with someone’]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ficar.

• → Guianese Creole: fika
  • Karipúna Creole French: fika

Inherited from Old Spanish ficar (also fincar), from Vulgar Latin *fīg(i)cāre, frequentative based on Latin fīgere (“drive in, fix in place”). Doublet of hincar.

• IPA^(key): /fiˈkaɾ/ [fiˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: fi‧car

ficar (first-person singular present fico, first-person singular preterite fiqué, past participle ficado)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) to stay

   Synonym: quedar

• “ficar”, 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