afectar

== Catalan == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin affectāre. See also the doublet afaitar. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.fəkˈta] IPA(key): (Valencia) [a.fekˈtaɾ] Homophone: afectà Rhymes: -a(ɾ) === Verb === afectar (first-person singular present afecto, first-person singular preterite afectí, past participle afectat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/ (transitive) to feign, pretend Synonyms: fingir, ostentar afectar interès ― to feign interest to play dumb (transitive) to affect ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== desafectar ==== Related terms ==== afecte afectiu === Further reading === “afectar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007 “afectar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026 “afectar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. “afectar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. == Portuguese == === Verb === afectar (first-person singular present afecto, first-person singular preterite afectei, past participle afectado) (European Portuguese spelling) pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of afetar; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “afectar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin affectāre. See also the doublets afeitar and ahechar. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /afeɡˈtaɾ/ [a.feɣ̞ˈt̪aɾ] Rhymes: -aɾ Syllabification: a‧fec‧tar === Verb === afectar (first-person singular present afecto, first-person singular preterite afecté, past participle afectado) to affect, to have an effect on, to influence to feign, to affect to speak or act insincerely, adopt an affectation to impair, to affect (negatively) to get to, to get under one's skin, to upset, to affect emotionally (pronominal) to be affected (by an action), to get to ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “afectar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025