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medicar

Spanish, verb/mediˈkaɾ/

medicar is a Spanish verb meaning “to medicate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Administrar medicamentos a algún sujeto”.

What does medicar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to medicate

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Administrar medicamentos a algún sujeto.

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 medicar

  • medico first-person present singular
  • mediqué first-person preterite singular
  • medicado participle past
  • c-qu alternation
  • medicando gerund
  • medicada feminine participle past
  • medicados masculine participle past
  • medicadas feminine participle past
  • medicas indicative informal present
  • medicás indicative informal present
  • medica indicative present singular
  • medicamos first-person indicative plural
  • medicáis indicative plural present
  • medican indicative plural present
  • medicaba first-person imperfect indicative
  • medicabas imperfect indicative second-person
  • medicábamos first-person imperfect indicative
  • medicabais imperfect indicative plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce medicar?

  • /mediˈkaɾ/
  • [me.ð̞iˈkaɾ]
  • [með̞iˈkaɾ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to medicar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is medicar in Spanish?

medicar appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).