calcinar
Spanish, verb/kalθiˈnaɾ/
calcinar is spelled C-A-L-C-I-N-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written Spanish, the 172,602nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Calcinar is a Spanish verb meaning “to scorch, to burn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Someter al calor un mineral calcáreo sin derretirlo, para privarlo de su ácido carbónico y así reducirlo a…”.
What does calcinar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scorch, to burn
- 2
to calcine
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Someter al calor un mineral calcáreo sin derretirlo, para privarlo de su ácido carbónico y así reducirlo a cal viva. 2. Someter al calor un mineral de cualquier tipo, para que de él se desprendan las impurezas volátiles. 3. Quemar y abrasar algo completamente, hasta dejarlo arruinado.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of calcinar
- calcino first-person present singular
- calciné first-person preterite singular
- calcinado participle past
- calcinando gerund
- calcinada feminine participle past
- calcinados masculine participle past
- calcinadas feminine participle past
- calcinas indicative informal present
- calcinás indicative informal present
- calcina indicative present singular
- calcinamos first-person indicative plural
- calcináis indicative plural present
- calcinan indicative plural present
- calcinaba first-person imperfect indicative
- calcinabas imperfect indicative second-person
- calcinábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- calcinabais imperfect indicative plural
- calcinaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce calcinar?
- /kalθiˈnaɾ/
- [kal̟.θiˈnaɾ]
- /kalsiˈnaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to calcinar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is calcinar in Spanish?
calcinar appears about once in every 22 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).