bautizar

Semi-learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin baptīzāre, present active infinitive of baptīzō, from Ancient Greek βαπτῐ́ζω (baptízō, “I immerse, baptize”).

• IPA^(key): /bautiˈθaɾ/, [bau̯.t̪iˈθaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: bau‧ti‧zar

bautizar (first-person singular indicative present bautizo, past participle bautizáu)

1. to baptize

• batizar

From Old Galician-Portuguese batiçar, bautizar, a semi-learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin baptīzāre, present active infinitive of baptīzō, from Ancient Greek βαπτῐ́ζω (baptízō, “I immerse, baptize”).

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: bau‧ti‧zar

bautizar (first-person singular present bautizo, first-person singular preterite bauticei, past participle bautizado)

1. to baptize

Semi-learned word from older baptizar, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin baptīzāre, from Ancient Greek βαπτῐ́ζω (baptízō, “to immerse, baptize”). Compare the inherited Old Spanish form batear, also written baptear, found in works by Berceo and other texts from the 13th and 14th centuries.[1]

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /bautiˈθaɾ/ [bau̯.t̪iˈθaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /bautiˈsaɾ/ [bau̯.t̪iˈsaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: bau‧ti‧zar

bautizar (first-person singular present bautizo, first-person singular preterite bauticé, past participle bautizado)

1. to baptize
2. to name (to give a name to)

• “bautizar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014