picar

From Old Occitan, from Vulgar Latin *pīccāre, itself a derivative of Latin pīcus or of onomatopoetic origin.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /piˈka/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /piˈkaɾ/
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

picar (first-person singular present pico, past participle picat)

1. (of an animal or insect) to bite, sting
2. to peck (strike with the beak or bill)
3. to prick, pierce
4. to sting, burn; to be spicy or sour
5. to mince, chop

• “picar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• pichar

From pico (“beak”).

• IPA^(key): /piˈkaɾ/

picar (first-person singular present pico, first-person singular preterite piquei, past participle picado)

1. to mince
2. to chop

   Hai que picar esa leña. ― Somebody [probably you] should chop that firewood.

3. to bite
4. to sting

   Synonym: aguillar

5. (of milk, wine) to sour, embitter
6. (of the sea) to become choppy
7. to itch
8. (of food) to be hot, spicy
9. to hammer (a blade, for sharpening it)

   Synonym: carabuñar

10. to nibble

• pico
• repicar

• “picar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “picar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “picar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “picar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “picar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Occitan, from Vulgar Latin *pīccāre, itself a derivative of Latin pīcus or of onomatopoetic origin.

• IPA^(key): /piˈka/

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picar

1. to hit; to strike
2. (of an insect or the like) to sting

   Synonym: fissar

From Vulgar Latin *pīccāre (“to puncture”), itself from *pīccus (“woodpecker”), variant of Latin pīcus, or of onomatopoetic origin.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /piˈka(ʁ)/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /piˈkaɾ/
• Hyphenation: pi‧car

picar (first-person singular present indicative pico, past participle picado)

1. to sting (pierce with a small, sharp point)
2. to mince; to shred (chop into small pieces)
3. first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of picar
4. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of picar
5. first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of picar
6. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of picar

From pico (“beak, point”), or maybe from Latin pīcus (“woodpecker”), through a Vulgar Latin *pīccāre (“to sting, strike”). Compare English pique, French piquer, and Portuguese picar.

• IPA^(key): /piˈkaɾ/
• Hyphenation: pi‧car

picar (first-person singular present pico, first-person singular preterite piqué, past participle picado)

1. to itch
2. to sting
3. to chop
4. to bite
5. (cooking) to mince, to dice
6. to stab; to wound
7. (colloquial) to snack; to nibble; to have a bite
8. to rot; to decay; to eat away; to rust
9. to pique

   Synonym: despertar

10. to crush (ice)
11. to sting or be pungent to the lips or tongue, be spicy or hot

    Este chile pica mucho. ― This chili is very hot.

12. (slang, Mexico) to sexually penetrate, fuck
13. (reflexive) to get angry, get annoyed, take offence
14. (reflexive) to turn sour
15. (reflexive, Mexico, with con) to get addicted, fascinated, enraptured

• c becomes qu before e.

• c becomes qu before e.

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

Compare Italian impiccare.

• IPA^(key): /piˈkar/

picar

1. (transitive, intransitive) to hang, dangle

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.