# purificar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pūrificāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [pu.ɾi.fiˈka]
* IPA: (Valencia) [pu.ɾi.fiˈkaɾ]

### Verb

purificar (first-person singular present purifico, first-person singular preterite purifiquí, past participle purificat)
* to purify

#### Related terms

* purificació

### Further reading

* “purificar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “purificar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “purificar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “purificar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Etymology

From Latin pūrificāre.

### Verb

purificar (first-person singular present purifico, first-person singular preterite purifiquei, past participle purificado)
* (transitive) to purify

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

#### Related terms

* purificación
* purificador
* purificante

### Further reading

* “purificar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* “purificar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pūrificāre. By surface analysis, puro +‎ -ificar.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /pu.ɾi.fiˈka(ʁ)/ [pu.ɾi.fiˈka(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /pu.ɾi.fiˈka(ʁ)/ [pu.ɾi.fiˈka(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /pu.ɾi.fiˈka(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /pu.ɾi.fiˈka(ʁ)/ [pu.ɾi.fiˈka(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /pu.ɾi.fiˈka(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /pu.ɾi.fiˈkaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /pu.ɾi.fiˈkaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /pu.ɾi.fiˈka.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: pu‧ri‧fi‧car

### Verb

purificar (first-person singular present purifico, first-person singular preterite purifiquei, past participle purificado)
* (transitive) to purify, to refine

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Derived terms

* purificação

### Further reading

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

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin pūrificāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /puɾifiˈkaɾ/ [pu.ɾi.fiˈkaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: pu‧ri‧fi‧car

### Verb

purificar (first-person singular present purifico, first-person singular preterite purifiqué, past participle purificado)
* to purify
** 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 182:La Virgen del Carmen baja todos los miércoles al purgatorio, a sacar las almas purificadas.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Derived terms

* purificador
* purificante

#### Related terms

* purificación

### Further reading

* “purificar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10