encarnar

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin and Late Latin incarnāre, from Latin carō.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

encarnar (first-person singular present encarno, first-person singular preterite encarní, past participle encarnat)

1. (transitive) to incarnate, embody
2. (transitive, figurative) to personify
3. (intransitive) to become ingrown
4. (transitive) to redden

• (personify): personificar, caracteritzar

• desencarnar
• encarnatiu

• “encarnar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• incarnar

Inherited from Ecclesiastical Latin incarnāre, from Latin carō (“flesh”).

• Hyphenation: en‧car‧nar

encarnar (first-person singular present encarno, first-person singular preterite encarnei, past participle encarnado)

1. to incarnate (to embody in flesh)
2. to incarnate; to embody (to represent in a concrete form)

   Synonym: personificar

From Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin incarnāre, a verb based on Latin carnem (“flesh”).

• IPA^(key): /enkaɾˈnaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: en‧car‧nar

encarnar (first-person singular present encarno, first-person singular preterite encarné, past participle encarnado)

1. to embody; to play

   El actor encarnó a Don Juan.

   The actor played Don Juan.

2. to incarnate
3. to ingrow

   uña encarnada ― ingrown nail

• “encarnar”, 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