intricar

Galician

Alternative forms

• intrincar

Etymology

15th century. From Latin intricare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /intɾiˈkaɾ/

Verb

intricar (first-person singular present intrico, first-person singular preterite intriquei, past participle intricado)

1. (transitive) to tangle, embroil
   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Rufus, Jordanus: Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 141:

     et dos ditos poos deuen vsar nos llugarres neruossos et jntrincados de veas et darterias porque se deuen cauidar de fazer en taes lugares talladuras nen queimaduras a nehua gisa

     and the aforementioned powders must be used in the [horse's] parts with nerves and entangled with veins and arteries, because one must refrain from cutting and burning those place in any way

2. (transitive, figurative) to obfuscate, confuse

Conjugation

    Conjugation of intricar (c-qu alternation)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti)	Third-person (el / ela / Vde.)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / Vdes.)
Infinitive
Impersonal	intricar
Personal	intricar	intricares	intricar	intricarmos	intricardes	intricaren
Gerund
	intricando
Past participle
Masculine	intricado			intricados
Feminine	intricada			intricadas
Indicative
Present	intrico	intricas	intrica	intricamos	intricades	intrican
Imperfect	intricaba	intricabas	intricaba	intricabamos	intricabades	intricaban
Preterite	intriquei	intricaches	intricou	intricamos	intricastes	intricaron
Pluperfect	intricara	intricaras	intricara	intricaramos	intricarades	intricaran
Future	intricarei	intricarás	intricará	intricaremos	intricaredes	intricarán
Conditional	intricaría	intricarías	intricaría	intricariamos	intricariades	intricarían
Subjunctive
Present	intrique	intriques	intrique	intriquemos	intriquedes	intriquen
Imperfect	intricase	intricases	intricase	intricásemos	intricásedes	intricasen
Future	intricar	intricares	intricar	intricarmos	intricardes	intricaren
Imperative
Affirmative		intrica	intrique	intriquemos	intricade	intriquen
Negative (non)		non intriques	non intrique	non intriquemos	non intriquedes	non intriquen

    Reintegrated conjugation of intricar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Reintegrationism)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti / tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	intricar
Personal	intricar	intricares	intricar	intricarmos	intricardes	intricarem
Gerund
	intricando
Past participle
Masculine	intricado			intricados
Feminine	intricada			intricadas
Indicative
Present	intrico	intricas	intrica	intricamos	intricades, intricais	intricam
Imperfect	intricava	intricavas	intricava	intricávamos	intricávades, intricáveis, intricávais1	intricavam
Preterite	intriquei	intricaste, intricache1	intricou	intricamos	intricastes	intricárom, intricaram
Pluperfect	intricara	intricaras	intricara	intricáramos	intricárades, intricáreis, intricárais1	intricaram
Future	intricarei	intricarás	intricará	intricaremos	intricaredes, intricareis	intricarám, intricarão
Conditional	intricaria	intricarias	intricaria	intricaríamos	intricaríades, intricaríeis, intricaríais1	intricariam
Subjunctive
Present	intrique	intriques	intrique	intriquemos	intriquedes, intriqueis	intriquem
Imperfect	intricasse	intricasses	intricasse	intricássemos	intricássedes, intricásseis	intricassem
Future	intricar	intricares	intricar	intricarmos	intricardes	intricarem
Imperative
Affirmative		intrica	intrique	intriquemos	intricade, intricai	intriquem
Negative (nom)		nom intriques	nom intrique	nom intriquemos	nom intriquedes, nom intriqueis	nom intriquem

¹Less recommended.

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “jntrincado”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “entricar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “intricar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “intricar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• intrincar

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin intrīcāre.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɾiˈka(ʁ)/ [ĩ.tɾiˈka(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɾiˈka(ʁ)/ [ĩ.tɾiˈka(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɾiˈka(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɾiˈka(ʁ)/ [ĩ.tɾiˈka(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɾiˈka(ɻ)/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɾiˈkaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɾiˈkaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɾiˈka.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: in‧tri‧car

Verb

intricar (first-person singular present intrico, first-person singular preterite intriquei, past participle intricado)

1. (transitive) to tangle, embroil
2. (transitive, figurative) to obfuscate, confuse, puzzle, complicate

Conjugation

    Conjugation of intricar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	intricar
Personal	intricar	intricares	intricar	intricarmos	intricardes	intricarem
Gerund
	intricando
Past participle
Masculine	intricado			intricados
Feminine	intricada			intricadas
Indicative
Present	intrico	intricas	intrica	intricamos	intricais	intricam
Imperfect	intricava	intricavas	intricava	intricávamos	intricáveis	intricavam
Preterite	intriquei	intricaste	intricou	intricamos1, intricámos2	intricastes	intricaram
Pluperfect	intricara	intricaras	intricara	intricáramos	intricáreis	intricaram
Future	intricarei	intricarás	intricará	intricaremos	intricareis	intricarão
Conditional	intricaria	intricarias	intricaria	intricaríamos	intricaríeis	intricariam
Subjunctive
Present	intrique	intriques	intrique	intriquemos	intriqueis	intriquem
Imperfect	intricasse	intricasses	intricasse	intricássemos	intricásseis	intricassem
Future	intricar	intricares	intricar	intricarmos	intricardes	intricarem
Imperative
Affirmative		intrica	intrique	intriquemos	intricai	intriquem
Negative (não)		não intriques	não intrique	não intriquemos	não intriqueis	não intriquem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /intɾiˈkaɾ/ [ĩn̪.t̪ɾiˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: in‧tri‧car

Verb

intricar (first-person singular present intrico, first-person singular preterite intriqué, past participle intricado)

1. Alternative form of intrincar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of intricar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			intricar
gerund			intricando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		intricado		intricada
		plural		intricados		intricadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	intrico	intricastú intricásvos	intrica	intricamos	intricáis	intrican
	imperfect	intricaba	intricabas	intricaba	intricábamos	intricabais	intricaban
	preterite	intriqué	intricaste	intricó	intricamos	intricasteis	intricaron
	future	intricaré	intricarás	intricará	intricaremos	intricaréis	intricarán
	conditional	intricaría	intricarías	intricaría	intricaríamos	intricaríais	intricarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	intrique	intriquestú intriquésvos2	intrique	intriquemos	intriquéis	intriquen
	imperfect (ra)	intricara	intricaras	intricara	intricáramos	intricarais	intricaran
	imperfect (se)	intricase	intricases	intricase	intricásemos	intricaseis	intricasen
	future1	intricare	intricares	intricare	intricáremos	intricareis	intricaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		intricatú intricávos	intrique	intriquemos	intricad	intriquen
	negative		no intriques	no intrique	no intriquemos	no intriquéis	no intriquen

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

    Selected combined forms of intricar (c-qu alternation)

These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
with infinitive intricar	dative	intricarme	intricarte	intricarle, intricarse	intricarnos	intricaros	intricarles, intricarse
	accusative	intricarme	intricarte	intricarlo, intricarla, intricarse	intricarnos	intricaros	intricarlos, intricarlas, intricarse
with gerund intricando	dative	intricándome	intricándote	intricándole, intricándose	intricándonos	intricándoos	intricándoles, intricándose
	accusative	intricándome	intricándote	intricándolo, intricándola, intricándose	intricándonos	intricándoos	intricándolos, intricándolas, intricándose
with informal second-person singular tú imperative intrica	dative	intrícame	intrícate	intrícale	intrícanos	not used	intrícales
	accusative	intrícame	intrícate	intrícalo, intrícala	intrícanos	not used	intrícalos, intrícalas
with informal second-person singular vos imperative intricá	dative	intricame	intricate	intricale	intricanos	not used	intricales
	accusative	intricame	intricate	intricalo, intricala	intricanos	not used	intricalos, intricalas
with formal second-person singular imperative intrique	dative	intríqueme	not used	intríquele, intríquese	intríquenos	not used	intríqueles
	accusative	intríqueme	not used	intríquelo, intríquela, intríquese	intríquenos	not used	intríquelos, intríquelas
with first-person plural imperative intriquemos	dative	not used	intriquémoste	intriquémosle	intriquémonos	intriquémoos	intriquémosles
	accusative	not used	intriquémoste	intriquémoslo, intriquémosla	intriquémonos	intriquémoos	intriquémoslos, intriquémoslas
with informal second-person plural imperative intricad	dative	intricadme	not used	intricadle	intricadnos	intricaos	intricadles
	accusative	intricadme	not used	intricadlo, intricadla	intricadnos	intricaos	intricadlos, intricadlas
with formal second-person plural imperative intriquen	dative	intríquenme	not used	intríquenle	intríquennos	not used	intríquenles, intríquense
	accusative	intríquenme	not used	intríquenlo, intríquenla	intríquennos	not used	intríquenlos, intríquenlas, intríquense

Further reading

• “intricar”, 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