# indicar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin indicāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [in.diˈka]
* IPA: (Valencia) [in.diˈkaɾ]
* Audio (Catalonia):(file)
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

### Verb

indicar (first-person singular present indico, first-person singular preterite indiquí, past participle indicat)
* to indicate

#### Derived terms

* contraindicar

#### Related terms

* índex
* indicació
* indicador
* indicatiu

### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin indicō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /indiˈkaɾ/ [in̪.d̪iˈkɑɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Hyphenation: in‧di‧car

### Verb

indicar (first-person singular present indico, first-person singular preterite indiquei, past participle indicado)
* to indicate

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

#### Derived terms

* contraindicar

#### Related terms

* indicación
* indicador
* indicativo
* índice

#### Further reading

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

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /inˈdiː.kar/, [ɪn̪ˈd̪iːkär]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /inˈdi.kar/, [in̪ˈd̪iːkär]

### Verb

indīcar
* inflection of indīcō:
** first-person singular future passive indicative
** first-person singular present passive subjunctive

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin indicāre.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.d͡ʒiˈka(ʁ)/ [ĩ.d͡ʒiˈka(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.d͡ʒiˈka(ʁ)/ [ĩ.d͡ʒiˈka(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ĩ.d͡ʒiˈka(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ĩ.d͡ʒiˈka(ʁ)/ [ĩ.d͡ʒiˈka(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ĩ.d͡ʒiˈka(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.diˈkaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.diˈkaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ĩ.diˈka.ɾi/
* Audio (Southern Brazil):(file)

### Verb

indicar (first-person singular present indico, first-person singular preterite indiquei, past participle indicado)
* to indicate, designate
* to display
* to advise
* to appoint (to name someone to a post or role)

#### Conjugation

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

#### Derived terms

* contraindicar

#### Related terms

* indicação
* indicador
* indicativo
* índice

### Further reading

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

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin indicāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /indiˈkaɾ/ [ĩn̪.d̪iˈkaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: in‧di‧car

### Verb

indicar (first-person singular present indico, first-person singular preterite indiqué, past participle indicado)
* to indicate, signal, designate
* (medicine) to prescribe
    Synonyms: recetar, prescribir
** 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 313:Para curar de sustos o de locura, se indican varios remedios, entre ellos el siguiente: después del primer acceso, se dirige uno de los deudos del paciente con un cántaro al mar, y […](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

* contraindicar

#### Related terms

* indicación
* indicador
* indicativo
* índice

### Further reading

* “indicar”, 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