amplificar

Borrowed from Latin amplificāre (“to enlarge”), from amplus (“large”) + faciō (“to make”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əm.pli.fiˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [am.pli.fiˈkaɾ]

amplificar (first-person singular present amplifico, first-person singular preterite amplifiquí, past participle amplificat)

1. (transitive) to amplify (to make bigger)

• ample
• amplificació
• amplificador

• “amplificar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “amplificar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “amplificar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “amplificar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Learned borrowing from Latin amplificāre (“to enlarge”). By surface analysis, amplo +‎ -ificar.

• Hyphenation: am‧pli‧fi‧car

amplificar (first-person singular present amplifico, first-person singular preterite amplifiquei, past participle amplificado)

1. (transitive) to amplify (to make bigger)

   Synonyms: ampliar, aumentar

2. (transitive, electronics) to amplify (to increase the amplitude of a signal)

Borrowed from Latin amplificāre (“to enlarge”), from amplus (“large”) + faciō (“to make”). By surface analysis, amplio +‎ -ificar.

• IPA^(key): /amplifiˈkaɾ/ [ãm.pli.fiˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: am‧pli‧fi‧car

amplificar (first-person singular present amplifico, first-person singular preterite amplifiqué, past participle amplificado)

1. to enlarge, extend
2. to amplify, magnify

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