# justificar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin iūstificāre, from Latin iūstus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ʒus.ti.fiˈka]
* IPA: (Valencia) [d͡ʒus.ti.fiˈkaɾ]

### Verb

justificar (first-person singular present justifico, first-person singular preterite justifiquí, past participle justificat)
* to justify
* to explain, attribute
    O banco justifica os prejuízos com o efeito da pandemia. ― The bank attributes to the effect of the pandemic.

#### Derived terms

* justificable

#### Related terms

* justificació
* just

### Further reading

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

## Occitan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin iūstificāre, jūstificare, from Latin iūstus.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

justificar
* to justify

#### Related terms

* justificacion

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin iūstificāre. By surface analysis, justo +‎ -ificar.

### Pronunciation

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

### Verb

justificar (first-person singular present justifico, first-person singular preterite justifiquei, past participle justificado)
* (transitive) to justify (provide an acceptable explanation for)
* (transitive) to justify; to warrant (be a good, acceptable reason for)
* (transitive) to justify (arrange text on a computer screen)
* (reflexive) to justify (give reasons for one’s actions)
* (intransitive, Brazil) To formally declare why one did not vote in the elections, in order to retain one's rights associated with voting.
    Faz anos que eu justifico, pois meu título de eleitor é de outro estado.I've been justifying my absence for years, because my voter ID is from another state.

#### Conjugation

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

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:justificar.

#### Derived terms

* justificação
* justificativa

#### Related terms

* justo

### Further reading

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

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin iūstificāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xustifiˈkaɾ/ [xus.t̪i.fiˈkaɾ]
* Audio (Venezuela):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: jus‧ti‧fi‧car

### Verb

justificar (first-person singular present justifico, first-person singular preterite justifiqué, past participle justificado)
* to justify
* to account for

#### 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

* el fin justifica los medios
* justificable

#### Related terms

* justificación
* justificante
* justo

### Further reading

* “justificar”, 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