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alambicar

alambicar

Galician

Verb

alambicar (first-person singular present alambico, first-person singular preterite alambiquei, past participle alambicado)

  1. to distill
  2. to complicate

Conjugation


Portuguese

Etymology

From the noun alambique (still), from Arabic إِنْبِيق (ʾinbīq, still), from Ancient Greek ἄμβιξ (ámbix).

Verb

alambicar (first-person singular present indicative alambico, past participle alambicado)

  1. to distill
  2. (by extension) to refine
  3. (by extension) to complicate excessively
  4. to scrutinize, to examine closely
  5. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to become pretentious

Conjugation

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Spanish

Etymology

From the noun alambique (still), from Arabic إِنْبِيق (ʾinbīq, still), from Ancient Greek ἄμβιξ (ámbix).

Verb

alambicar (first-person singular present alambico, first-person singular preterite alambiqué, past participle alambicado)

  1. to distill
  2. to scrutinize, to examine closely
  3. to complicate excessively

Conjugation

  • c becomes qu before e.