fagocitar
Spanish, verb/faɡoθiˈtaɾ/
fagocitar is spelled F-A-G-O-C-I-T-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written Spanish, the 176,328th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fagocitar is a Spanish verb meaning “to phagocytize, absorb, swallow up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Ingerir una célula a una sustancia o microorganismo, haciéndola pasar a su citoplasma para su destrucción y…”.
What does fagocitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to phagocytize, absorb, swallow up
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ingerir una célula a una sustancia o microorganismo, haciéndola pasar a su citoplasma para su destrucción y asimilación. 2. Hacer desaparecer una cosa absorbiéndola, incorporándola de modo que desaparece su individualidad.
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 fagocitar
- fagocito first-person present singular
- fagocité first-person preterite singular
- fagocitado participle past
- fagocitando gerund
- fagocitada feminine participle past
- fagocitados masculine participle past
- fagocitadas feminine participle past
- fagocitas indicative informal present
- fagocitás indicative informal present
- fagocita indicative present singular
- fagocitamos first-person indicative plural
- fagocitáis indicative plural present
- fagocitan indicative plural present
- fagocitaba first-person imperfect indicative
- fagocitabas imperfect indicative second-person
- fagocitábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- fagocitabais imperfect indicative plural
- fagocitaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fagocitar?
- /faɡoθiˈtaɾ/
- [fa.ɣ̞o.θiˈt̪aɾ]
- /faɡosiˈtaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fagocitar in Spanish?
fagocitar appears about once in every 23 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).