ramificar

ramificar

1. only used in es ... ramificar, syntactic variant of ramificar-se, infinitive of ramificar-se

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin rāmificāre (“to branch, ramify”). By surface analysis, ramo +‎ -ificar.

• Hyphenation: ra‧mi‧fi‧car

ramificar (first-person singular present ramifico, first-person singular preterite ramifiquei, past participle ramificado)

1. to branch
2. to ramify

• ramo

Borrowed from Medieval Latin ramificare (“to branch, ramify”), from Latin rāmus (“a branch”) + faciō (“do, make”). Equivalent to ramo +‎ -ificar.

• IPA^(key): /ramifiˈkaɾ/ [ra.mi.fiˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ra‧mi‧fi‧car

ramificar (first-person singular present ramifico, first-person singular preterite ramifiqué, past participle ramificado)

1. to ramify
2. to have ramifications or consequences
3. to have branches

• “ramificar”, 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