fortificar

Borrowed from Late Latin fortificāre, from Latin fortis.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [fur.ti.fiˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [for.ti.fiˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [foɾ.ti.fiˈkaɾ]

fortificar (first-person singular present fortifico, first-person singular preterite fortifiquí, past participle fortificat)

1. to fortify

Learned borrowing from Late Latin fortificāre, from Latin fortis. By surface analysis, forte +‎ -ificar.

• Hyphenation: for‧ti‧fi‧car

fortificar (first-person singular present fortifico, first-person singular preterite fortifiquei, past participle fortificado)

1. (transitive) to fortify; to strengthen (to make stronger)
2. (transitive) to fortify (to build fortifications in or around a place)

• fortalecer

Borrowed from Late Latin fortificāre, from Latin fortis.

• IPA^(key): /foɾtifiˈkaɾ/ [foɾ.t̪i.fiˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: for‧ti‧fi‧car

fortificar (first-person singular present fortifico, first-person singular preterite fortifiqué, past participle fortificado)

1. to fortify
   • 1605, Miguel de Cervantes, “Capítulo I”, in El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, Primera parte:

     Los altos cielos que de vuestra divinidad divinamente con las estrellas os fortifican y os hacen merecedora del merecimiento que merece la vuestra grandeza...

     The high heavens, that of your divinity divinely fortify you with the stars, render you deserving of the desert your greatness deserves...

• “fortificar”, 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