contagiar

From contagi +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kun.tə.ʒiˈa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kon.tə.ʒiˈa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kon.ta.d͡ʒiˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

contagiar (first-person singular present contagio, first-person singular preterite contagií, past participle contagiat)

1. (transitive) to infect; to transmit (a disease) to

   Synonym: encomanar

2. (pronominal) to be contagious
3. (pronominal) to become infected [with de or per ‘by’]
   • 2022 April 12, À Punt NTC, “El 41% de la població valenciana s'ha contagiat pel coronavirus”, in À Punt‎^[1]:

     El 41% de la població valenciana s'ha contagiat pel coronavirus, vora dos milions de persones, segons les estimacions d'un estudi de Programa Valencià d'Investigació Vacunal COVID-19 (ProVaVac), que calcula que el 95% de la població ja té anticossos per al SARS-CoV-2.

     41% of the Valencian population--over two million people--have been infected by the Coronavirus according to the estimates of a study by the Valencian Program for COVID-19 Vaccine Investigation (ProVaVac), which calculates that 95% of the population already have SARS-CoV-2 antibodies.

• contagiable

• “contagiar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “contagiar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “contagiar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “contagiar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From contágio +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: con‧ta‧gi‧ar

contagiar (first-person singular present contagio, first-person singular preterite contagiei, past participle contagiado)

1. (transitive) to infect (to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness)

   Synonym: infectar

2. (transitive, figurative) to infect (to make somebody feel the same way as oneself)

• “contagiar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “contagiar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “contagiar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “contagiar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “contagiar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “contagiar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

From contagio +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /kontaˈxjaɾ/ [kõn̪.t̪aˈxjaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: con‧ta‧giar

contagiar (first-person singular present contagio, first-person singular preterite contagié, past participle contagiado)

1. (transitive) to infect

   Synonyms: infectar, infeccionar

• “contagiar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28