caricia

See also: carícia and cariciá

Portuguese

Verb

caricia

1. inflection of cariciar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /kaˈɾiθja/ [kaˈɾi.θja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /kaˈɾisja/ [kaˈɾi.sja]
• Rhymes: -iθja
• Rhymes: -isja
• Syllabification: ca‧ri‧cia

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian carezza.

Noun

caricia f (plural caricias)

1. caress

   Synonyms: cariño, carantoña

Derived terms

• acariciar
• caricioso

 

Etymology 2

Verb

caricia

1. inflection of cariciar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “caricia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10