brincar

brincar (first-person singular indicative present brinco, past participle brincáu)

1. Alternative form of blincar

brincar (first-person singular present brinco, first-person singular preterite brinquei, past participle brincado)

1. to play
2. to jump around

Probably from brinco (“merriment”) +‎ -ar^[1][2][3] or less likely from Proto-Germanic *blinkaną (“to gleam, glitter, flash”).^[4]

• Hyphenation: brin‧car

brincar (first-person singular present brinco, first-person singular preterite brinquei, past participle brincado)

1. to play, as in child's play or "playing around"

   Eles brincam de esconde-esconde. ― They play hide-and-seek.

2. to act with levity or thoughtlessness

   Brincar com fogo ― play with fire

3. to joke, to kid

   Só estou brincando. ― I'm just kidding.

Borrowed from Portuguese brincar, a verb based on Portuguese brinco, from Latin vinculum.

• IPA^(key): /bɾinˈkaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: brin‧car

brincar (first-person singular present brinco, first-person singular preterite brinqué, past participle brincado)

1. (intransitive) to jump around, leap about, bounce (to propel oneself rapidly upward)

   Synonym: saltar

2. (intransitive) to frolic, gambol (to move about playfully and uninhibitedly)

• “brincar”, 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
• Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1984) “brincar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 665