intricar

• intrincar

15th century. From Latin intricare.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /intɾiˈkaɾ/

intricar (first-person singular present intrico, first-person singular preterite intriquei, past participle intricado)

1. (transitive) to tangle, embroil
   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Rufus, Jordanus: Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 141:

     et dos ditos poos deuen vsar nos llugarres neruossos et jntrincados de veas et darterias porque se deuen cauidar de fazer en taes lugares talladuras nen queimaduras a nehua gisa

     and the aforementioned powders must be used in the parts with nerves and entangled with veins and arteries, because one must refrain from cutting and burning those place in any way

2. (transitive, figurative) to obfuscate, confuse

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “jntrincado”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “entricar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “intricar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “intricar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• intrincar

Borrowed from Latin intrīcāre.

• Hyphenation: in‧tri‧car

intricar (first-person singular present intrico, first-person singular preterite intriquei, past participle intricado)

1. (transitive) to tangle, embroil
2. (transitive, figurative) to obfuscate, confuse, puzzle, complicate

• IPA^(key): /intɾiˈkaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: in‧tri‧car

intricar (first-person singular present intrico, first-person singular preterite intriqué, past participle intricado)

1. Alternative form of intrincar

• “intricar”, 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