indicar

Borrowed from Latin indicāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [in.diˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [in.diˈkaɾ]

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

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

1. to indicate

• contraindicar

• índex
• indicació
• indicador
• indicatiu

• “indicar”, 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
• “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.

Learned borrowing from Latin indicō.

• IPA^(key): /indiˈkaɾ/ [in̪.d̪iˈkɑɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: in‧di‧car

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

1. to indicate

• contraindicar

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪnˈdiː.kar]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in̪ˈd̪iː.kar]

indīcar

1. inflection of indīcō:
   1. first-person singular future passive indicative
   2. first-person singular present passive subjunctive

From Latin indicāre.

• Audio (Southern Brazil):

  (file)

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

1. to indicate, designate
2. to display
3. to advise
4. to appoint (to name someone to a post or role)

• contraindicar

• indicação
• indicador
• indicativo
• índice

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

Borrowed from Latin indicāre.

• IPA^(key): /indiˈkaɾ/ [ĩn̪.d̪iˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: in‧di‧car

indicar (first-person singular present indico, first-person singular preterite indiqué, past participle indicado)

1. to indicate, signal, designate
2. (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)

• “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], 10 December 2024