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Borrowed from Latin affectāre. See also the doublet afaitar.

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ə.fəkˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.fekˈtaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [a.fekˈta]

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• Homophone: afectà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

afectar (first-person singular present afecto, first-person singular preterite afectí, past participle afectat); root stress: (Northern) /e̞/; (Balearic) /ə/; (Central) /ɛ/; (Northwestern, Valencia) /e/

1. (transitive) to feign, pretend

   Synonyms: fingir, ostentar

   afectar interès ― to feign interest

2. to play dumb
3. (transitive) to affect

• desafectar

• afecte
• afectiu

• “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.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “afectar”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

afectar (first-person singular present afecto, first-person singular preterite afectei, past participle afectado)

1. (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

• “afectar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin affectāre. See also the doublets afeitar and ahechar.

• IPA^(key): /afeɡˈtaɾ/ [a.feɣ̞ˈt̪aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧fec‧tar

afectar (first-person singular present afecto, first-person singular preterite afecté, past participle afectado)

1. to affect, to have an effect on, to influence
2. to feign, to affect
3. to speak or act insincerely, adopt an affectation
4. to impair, to affect (negatively)

   El alcohol puede afectar su juicio.

   Alcohol can impair your judgment.

5. to get to, to get under one's skin, to upset, to affect emotionally

   No dejes que te afecte.

   Don't let it get to you.

6. (pronominal) to be affected (by an action), to get to

• “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