# calcificar
## Catalan
### Etymology

From calci +‎ -ificar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [kəl.si.fiˈka]
* IPA: (Valencia) [kal.si.fiˈkaɾ]
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
* Hyphenation: cal‧ci‧fi‧car

### Verb

calcificar (first-person singular present calcifico, first-person singular preterite calcifiquí, past participle calcificat)
* (transitive, inorganic chemistry) to calcify (to convert into insoluble calcium salts)
* (transitive, inorganic chemistry) to calcify (to cause the accumulation of calcium salts in a tissue, in an organ, in a duct)
* (intransitive or pronominal, inorganic chemistry) to calcify
** 2002, Manuel Sanchis-Guarner Cabanilles, Patologia quirúrgica osteoarticular: Generalitats‎, →ISBN, page 208:Es formen grans masses d'osteoide que no s'arriben a calcificar, i això té com a conseqüència l'aparició de calls exuberants […]Large masses of osteoid are formed that do not calcify, and this results in the appearance of exuberant calluses […]

#### Conjugation
### Further reading

* “calcificar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “calcificar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “calcificar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Galician
### Etymology

From calcio +‎ -ificar.

### Verb

calcificar (first-person singular present calcifico, first-person singular preterite calcifiquei, past participle calcificado)
* to calcify

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From cálcio +‎ -ificar.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kaw.si.fiˈka(ʁ)/ [kaʊ̯.si.fiˈka(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /kaw.si.fiˈka(ʁ)/ [kaʊ̯.si.fiˈka(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /kaw.si.fiˈka(ɾ)/ [kaʊ̯.si.fiˈka(ɾ)]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /kaw.si.fiˈka(ʁ)/ [kaʊ̯.si.fiˈka(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kaw.si.fiˈka(ɻ)/ [kaʊ̯.si.fiˈka(ɻ)]
* (Portugal) IPA: /kal.si.fiˈkaɾ/ [kaɫ.si.fiˈkaɾ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /kal.si.fiˈkaɾ/ [kaɫ.si.fiˈkaɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /kal.si.fiˈka.ɾi/ [kaɫ.si.fiˈka.ɾi]
* Hyphenation: cal‧ci‧fi‧car

### Verb

calcificar (first-person singular present calcifico, first-person singular preterite calcifiquei, past participle calcificado)
* to calcify

#### Conjugation

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

#### Derived terms

* calcificação

## Spanish
### Etymology

From calcio +‎ -ificar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /kalθifiˈkaɾ/ [kal̟.θi.fiˈkaɾ]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /kalsifiˈkaɾ/ [kal.si.fiˈkaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: cal‧ci‧fi‧car

### Verb

calcificar (first-person singular present calcifico, first-person singular preterite calcifiqué, past participle calcificado)
* to calcify

#### 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.

### Further reading

* “calcificar”, 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