marcar

marcar (first-person singular indicative present marco, past participle marcáu)

1. to mark
2. to write down
3. to dial
4. to show, say, read (a measurement)
5. to mark (in sports)
6. to scar (emotionally)

From marca +‎ -ar or from Vulgar Latin *marcāre, of Germanic origin.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [mərˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [maɾˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

marcar (first-person singular present marco, first-person singular preterite marquí, past participle marcat)

1. to mark
2. to brand (an animal)
3. (sports) to score
4. to indicate, to show
5. to dial (a telephone number)

• marca

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

• IPA^(key): /maɾˈkaɾ/ [maɾˈkɑɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: mar‧car

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese marcar, from Medieval Latin marcāre.

marcar (first-person singular present marco, first-person singular preterite marquei, past participle marcado)

1. (dated) to demarcate, delimit

   Synonyms: derregar, estremar, deslindar

   • 1862, anonymous author, Album de la Caridad, A Coruña: Imprenta del Hospicio Provincial, page 267:

     Pois a renda temos paga, / E o tarreo ben marcado

     Since we had paid our rent, and the terrain is correctly delimited

Borrowed from Italian marcare (“to put a mark”).

marcar (first-person singular present marco, first-person singular preterite marquei, past participle marcado)

1. to mark, put a mark

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “marcar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “marcar”, 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), “marcar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “marcar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “marcar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “marcar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

marcar

1. to mark

From Medieval Latin marcāre, from Medieval Latin marco, frequent in local documents since the 9th century together with its derivatives marcar and demarcar (“to demarcate”). Given its early local documentation, with this meaning ("to delimit") it is not a borrowing from Italian, but from Gothic or Suevic,^[1] from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary, region”), from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs (“boundary, border”).

marcar

1. to demarcate; to delimit (to mark the limits or boundaries of something)

   Synonym: demarcar

   • 1273, Miguel Romaní (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). 3 vols. Santiago: Tórculo Edicións (1989, 1989, 1993), page 387:

     vendemus et outorgamus uno tallo de herdade, o qual esta marcado per marcos ontre a casa de Pedro Perez et o lagar que esta ante o celeyro de Fernan Ares

     We sell and give a patch of land which is delimited by boundary stones in between the house of Pedro Pérez and the wine press before the granary of Fernán Ares

• Fala: marcal
• Galician: marcar
• Portuguese: marcar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “marcar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “marc”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese marcar, from Medieval Latin marcāre.

• Hyphenation: mar‧car

marcar (first-person singular present marco, first-person singular preterite marquei, past participle marcado)

1. to mark
2. (sports) to score
3. to show (give a time)
4. (sports) to mark, man-mark
5. to set (a time or a tone)
6. (Brazil, intransitive, slang, of genitalia) to be visible beneath clothing
7. (Internet) to tag (to attach the name of a user so that they are linked from the post)

• “marcar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “marcar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “marcar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From marca +‎ -ar or from Italian marcare.

• IPA^(key): /maɾˈkaɾ/ [maɾˈkaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: mar‧car

marcar (first-person singular present marco, first-person singular preterite marqué, past participle marcado)

1. to mark, to set

   marcar el ritmo ― to set the pace

2. to write down, jot down
3. (sports) to score
4. to show, read, say (of a measuring device)
5. to beat, make (a rhythm)
6. to dial
7. to frame
8. (reflexive, Spain) to fancy, have a hankering for

• “marcar”, 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