bautizar

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

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

1. to baptize

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

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

1. to baptize
2. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of bautizar
3. first/third-person singular personal infinitive of bautizar

• Note: bautiz- are changed to bautic- before front vowels (e).

Semi-learned word from older baptizar, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin baptīzāre, present active infinitive of baptīzō, from Ancient Greek βαπτῑ́ζω (baptī́zō, “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

• autobautizarse
• bautizo

• bautismo
• bautista

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