viciar
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Semi-learned borrowing from Latin vitiāre (“to make faulty”). Compare with English vitiate.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: vi‧ci‧ar
Verb edit
viciar (first-person singular present vicio, first-person singular preterite viciei, past participle viciado)
- to addict (to cause someone to become addicted)
- (Os) Seus amigos o viciaram/-no em drogas.
- His friends addicted him to drugs.
- Este jogo me viciou/-me.
- This game got me addicted.
- (intransitive) to be addictive
- Cigarros vicia(m).
- Cigarettes are addictive.
- to spoil; to corrupt
- to adulterate
- Synonyms: adulterar, falsificar
- Os dados foram viciados.
- The dice have been adultered.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of viciar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Antonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin vitiāre (“to corrupt, to dishonor”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /biˈθjaɾ/ [biˈθjaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /biˈsjaɾ/ [biˈsjaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: vi‧ciar
Verb edit
viciar (first-person singular present vicio, first-person singular preterite vicié, past participle viciado)
- to addict (to cause someone to become addicted)
- Sus amigos lo viciaron en las drogas.
- His friends addicted him to drugs.
- Este juego me vició.
- This game got me addicted.
- (intransitive) to be addictive
- Los cigarrillos vician.
- Cigarettes are addictive.
- to spoil; to corrupt
- El hedor vició la habitación.
- The stench spoiled the room.
- to adulterate, to distort
- Los dados fueron viciados.
- The dice have been adultered.
- (reflexive) to degrade, to fade
- Las baterías se vician con el uso.
- Batteries degrade with use.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of viciar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | viciar | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gerund | viciando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | viciado | viciada | |||||
plural | viciados | viciadas | |||||
singular | plural | ||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
indicative | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | vicio | viciastú viciásvos |
vicia | viciamos | viciáis | vician | |
imperfect | viciaba | viciabas | viciaba | viciábamos | viciabais | viciaban | |
preterite | vicié | viciaste | vició | viciamos | viciasteis | viciaron | |
future | viciaré | viciarás | viciará | viciaremos | viciaréis | viciarán | |
conditional | viciaría | viciarías | viciaría | viciaríamos | viciaríais | viciarían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | vicie | viciestú viciésvos2 |
vicie | viciemos | viciéis | vicien | |
imperfect (ra) |
viciara | viciaras | viciara | viciáramos | viciarais | viciaran | |
imperfect (se) |
viciase | viciases | viciase | viciásemos | viciaseis | viciasen | |
future1 | viciare | viciares | viciare | viciáremos | viciareis | viciaren | |
imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
affirmative | viciatú viciávos |
vicie | viciemos | viciad | vicien | ||
negative | no vicies | no vicie | no viciemos | no viciéis | no vicien |
Selected combined forms of viciar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Further reading edit
- “viciar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014