medicar
Portuguese, verb/me.d͡ʒiˈka(ʁ)/
medicar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to medicate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tratar com medicação (medicamento, medicina ou remédio)”.
What does medicar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to medicate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tratar com medicação (medicamento, medicina ou remédio)
verb: 1. primeira pessoa do singular do futuro do conjuntivo/subjuntivo do verbo medicar 2. terceira pessoa do singular do futuro do conjuntivo/subjuntivo do verbo medicar 3. infinitivo pessoal da primeira pessoa do singular do verbo medicar 4. infinitivo pessoal da terceira pessoa do singular do verbo medicar
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of medicar
- medico first-person present singular
- mediquei first-person preterite singular
- medicado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- medicares infinitive second-person singular
- medicarmos first-person infinitive plural
- medicardes infinitive plural second-person
- medicarem infinitive plural third-person
- medicando gerund
- medicados masculine participle past
- medicada feminine participle past
- medicadas feminine participle past
- medicas indicative present second-person
- medica indicative present singular
- medicamos first-person indicative plural
- medicais indicative plural present
- medicam indicative plural present
- medicava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce medicar?
- Brazil /me.d͡ʒiˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [me.d͡ʒiˈka(h)]
- /me.d͡ʒiˈka(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (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 Portuguese?
medicar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).