enfermar

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese enfermar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin īnfirmāre, present active infinitive of īnfirmō (“weaken, shake”).

• IPA^(key): [eɱfeɾˈmaɾ]

enfermar (first-person singular present enfermo, first-person singular preterite enfermei, past participle enfermado)

1. (intransitive) to become ill; to get sick

   Antonym: sandar

2. (transitive) to make ill; to sicken

   Antonym: sandar

3. inflection of enfermar:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

• “enfermar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “nferm” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “enfermar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “enfermar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “enfermar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin īnfirmāre, present active infinitive of īnfirmō (“weaken, shake”).

• IPA^(key): /enfeɾˈmaɾ/ [ẽɱ.feɾˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: en‧fer‧mar

enfermar (first-person singular present enfermo, first-person singular preterite enfermé, past participle enfermado)

1. (transitive) to make ill
2. (reflexive) to become ill

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