intricar

• intrincar

15th century. From Latin intricare.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /intɾiˈkaɾ/

intricar (first-person singular present intrico, first-person singular preterite intriquei, past participle intricado)

1. (transitive) to tangle, embroil
   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Rufus, Jordanus: Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 141:

     et dos ditos poos deuen vsar nos llugarres neruossos et jntrincados de veas et darterias porque se deuen cauidar de fazer en taes lugares talladuras nen queimaduras a nehua gisa

     and the aforementioned powders must be used in the [horse's] parts with nerves and entangled with veins and arteries, because one must refrain from cutting and burning those place in any way

2. (transitive, figurative) to obfuscate, confuse

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “jntrincado”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “entricar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “intricar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “intricar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• intrincar

Borrowed from Latin intrīcāre.

• Hyphenation: in‧tri‧car

intricar (first-person singular present intrico, first-person singular preterite intriquei, past participle intricado)

1. (transitive) to tangle, embroil
2. (transitive, figurative) to obfuscate, confuse, puzzle, complicate

• IPA^(key): /intɾiˈkaɾ/ [ĩn̪.t̪ɾiˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: in‧tri‧car

intricar (first-person singular present intrico, first-person singular preterite intriqué, past participle intricado)

1. alternative form of intrincar

• “intricar”, 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