afectar

Borrowed from Latin affectāre, present active infinitive of affectō. See also the doublet afaitar.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ə.fəkˈta/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.fekˈtaɾ/
• Homophone: afectà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

afectar (first-person singular present afecto, past participle afectat)

1. (transitive) to feign, pretend

   Synonyms: fingir, ostentar

   afectar interès ― to feign interest

2. to play dumb
3. (transitive) to affect

• desafectar

• afecte
• afectiu

• “afectar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “afectar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “afectar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “afectar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

afectar (first-person singular present afecto, first-person singular preterite afectei, past participle afectado)

1. Superseded spelling of afetar. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)

Borrowed from Latin affectāre, present active infinitive of affectō. See also the doublets afeitar and ahechar.

• IPA^(key): /afeɡˈtaɾ/ [a.feɣ̞ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧fec‧tar

afectar (first-person singular present afecto, first-person singular preterite afecté, past participle afectado)

1. to affect, to have an effect on, to influence
2. to feign, to affect
3. to speak or act insincerely, adopt an affectation
4. to impair, to affect (negatively)

   El alcohol puede afectar su juicio.

   Alcohol can impair your judgment.

5. to get to, to get under one's skin, to upset, to affect emotionally

   No dejes que te afecte.

   Don't let it get to you.

6. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to be affected (by an action), to get to

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