vaticinar
Spanish, verb/batiθiˈnaɾ/
vaticinar is spelled V-A-T-I-C-I-N-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish, the 122,511th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vaticinar is a Spanish verb meaning “to predict, vaticinate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Indicar o decir lo futuro, sea con base en la evidencia y conjeturas, o a través de medios no exclusivamente…”.
What does vaticinar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to predict, vaticinate
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Indicar o decir lo futuro, sea con base en la evidencia y conjeturas, o a través de medios no exclusivamente basados en la razón.
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 vaticinar
- vaticino first-person present singular
- vaticiné first-person preterite singular
- vaticinado participle past
- vaticinando gerund
- vaticinada feminine participle past
- vaticinados masculine participle past
- vaticinadas feminine participle past
- vaticinas indicative informal present
- vaticinás indicative informal present
- vaticina indicative present singular
- vaticinamos first-person indicative plural
- vaticináis indicative plural present
- vaticinan indicative plural present
- vaticinaba first-person imperfect indicative
- vaticinabas imperfect indicative second-person
- vaticinábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- vaticinabais imperfect indicative plural
- vaticinaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vaticinar?
- /batiθiˈnaɾ/
- [ba.t̪i.θiˈnaɾ]
- /batisiˈnaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vaticinar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vaticinar in Spanish?
vaticinar 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).