mistificar

Borrowed from Spanish, from French mystifier.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [mis.ti.fiˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [mis.ti.fiˈkaɾ]
• Homophone: mistificà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

mistificar (first-person singular present mistifico, first-person singular preterite mistifiquí, past participle mistificat)

1. (transitive) to mystify

• mistificador

• místic

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

From French mystifier.

• Hyphenation: mis‧ti‧fi‧car

mistificar (first-person singular present mistifico, first-person singular preterite mistifiquei, past participle mistificado)

1. (transitive) to mystify

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

Borrowed from French mystifier.

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

mistificar (first-person singular present mistifico, first-person singular preterite mistifiqué, past participle mistificado)

1. (transitive) to mystify, perplex

• “mistificar”, 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