justificar

Borrowed from Late Latin iūstificāre, from Latin iūstus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ʒus.ti.fiˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [d͡ʒus.ti.fiˈkaɾ]

justificar (first-person singular present justifico, first-person singular preterite justifiquí, past participle justificat)

1. to justify
2. to explain, attribute

   O banco justifica os prejuízos com o efeito da pandemia. ― The bank attributes to the effect of the pandemic.

• justificable

• justificació
• just

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

Borrowed from Late Latin iūstificāre, jūstificare, from Latin iūstus.

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justificar

1. to justify

• justificacion

Learned borrowing from Late Latin iūstificāre. By surface analysis, justo +‎ -ificar.

• Hyphenation: jus‧ti‧fi‧car

justificar (first-person singular present justifico, first-person singular preterite justifiquei, past participle justificado)

1. (transitive) to justify (provide an acceptable explanation for)
2. (transitive) to justify; to warrant (be a good, acceptable reason for)
3. (transitive) to justify (arrange text on a computer screen)
4. (reflexive) to justify (give reasons for one’s actions)
5. (intransitive, Brazil) To formally declare why one did not vote in the elections, in order to retain one's rights associated with voting.

   Faz anos que eu justifico, pois meu título de eleitor é de outro estado.

   I've been justifying my absence for years, because my voter ID is from another state.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:justificar.

• justificação
• justificativa

• justo

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

Borrowed from Late Latin iūstificāre.

• IPA^(key): /xustifiˈkaɾ/ [xus.t̪i.fiˈkaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: jus‧ti‧fi‧car

justificar (first-person singular present justifico, first-person singular preterite justifiqué, past participle justificado)

1. to justify
2. to account for

• “justificar”, 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