petrificar

petrificar (first-person singular indicative present petrifico, past participle petrificáu)

1. petrify (to harden organic matter by depositing dissolved minerals)

petrificar (first-person singular present petrifico, first-person singular preterite petrifiquei, past participle petrificado)

1. (transitive) to petrify

• petrificación

• “petrificar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

• Hyphenation: pe‧tri‧fi‧car

petrificar (first-person singular present petrifico, first-person singular preterite petrifiquei, past participle petrificado)

1. (transitive) to petrify, to produce rigidity

• petrificação

• “petrificar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Borrowed from Medieval Latin petrificāre (“to petrify”), from the compounding of petra (“stone, rock”) and -ficō, a suffix from faciō (“to make”). The term petra is from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra, “stone, rock”); further etymology unknown.

• IPA^(key): /petɾifiˈkaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pe‧tri‧fi‧car

petrificar (first-person singular present petrifico, first-person singular preterite petrifiqué, past participle petrificado)

1. (transitive) to petrify

• “petrificar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28