# contagiar
## Catalan
### Etymology

From contagi +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [kun.tə.ʒiˈa]
* IPA: (Balearic) [kon.tə.ʒiˈa]
* IPA: (Valencia) [kon.ta.d͡ʒiˈaɾ]
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

### Verb

contagiar (first-person singular present contagio, first-person singular preterite contagií, past participle contagiat)
* (transitive) to infect; to transmit (a disease) to
    Synonym: encomanar
* (pronominal) to be contagious
* (pronominal) to become infected [with de or per ‘by’]
** 2022 April 12, À Punt NTC, “El 41% de la població valenciana s'ha contagiat pel coronavirus”, in À Punt‎:El 41% de la població valenciana s'ha contagiat pel coronavirus, vora dos milions de persones, segons les estimacions d'un estudi de Programa Valencià d'Investigació Vacunal COVID-19 (ProVaVac), que calcula que el 95% de la població ja té anticossos per al SARS-CoV-2.41% of the Valencian population--over two million people--have been infected by the Coronavirus according to the estimates of a study by the Valencian Program for COVID-19 Vaccine Investigation (ProVaVac), which calculates that 95% of the population already have SARS-CoV-2 antibodies.

#### Derived terms

* contagiable

#### Related terms

* contagió
* contagiós

### Further reading

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

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From contágio +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kõ.ta.ʒiˈa(ʁ)/ [kõ.ta.ʒɪˈa(h)], (faster pronunciation) /kõ.taˈʒja(ʁ)/ [kõ.taˈʒja(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /kõ.ta.ʒiˈa(ʁ)/ [kõ.ta.ʒɪˈa(h)], (faster pronunciation) /kõ.taˈʒja(ʁ)/ [kõ.taˈʒja(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /kõ.ta.ʒiˈa(ɾ)/ [kõ.ta.ʒɪˈa(ɾ)], (faster pronunciation) /kõ.taˈʒja(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /kõ.ta.ʒiˈa(ʁ)/ [kõ.ta.ʒɪˈa(χ)], (faster pronunciation) /kõ.taˈʒja(ʁ)/ [kõ.taˈʒja(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kõ.ta.ʒiˈa(ɻ)/ [kõ.ta.ʒɪˈa(ɻ)], (faster pronunciation) /kõ.taˈʒja(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kõ.tɐˈʒjaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kõ.tɐˈʒjaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /kõ.tɐˈʒja.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: con‧ta‧gi‧ar

### Verb

contagiar (first-person singular present contagio, first-person singular preterite contagiei, past participle contagiado)
* (transitive) to infect (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)
    Synonym: infectar
* (transitive, figurative) to infect (to make somebody feel the same way as oneself)

#### Conjugation

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

### Further reading

* “contagiar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “contagiar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
* “contagiar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “contagiar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “contagiar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “contagiar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

From contagio +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kontaˈxjaɾ/ [kõn̪.t̪aˈxjaɾ]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: con‧ta‧giar

### Verb

contagiar (first-person singular present contagio, first-person singular preterite contagié, past participle contagiado)
* (transitive) to infect
    Synonyms: infectar, infeccionar

#### 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.

#### Related terms

* contagioso

### Further reading

* “contagiar”, 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