colimar
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin collimare, from Latin collineāre (“to target”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koliˈmaɾ/ [ko.liˈmaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: co‧li‧mar
Verb
colimar (first-person singular present colimo, first-person singular preterite colimé, past participle colimado)
- (physics) to collimate
Conjugation
Conjugation of colimar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | colimar | ||||||
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gerund | colimando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | colimado | colimada | |||||
plural | colimados | colimadas | |||||
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 | colimo | colimastú colimásvos | colima | colimamos | colimáis | coliman | |
imperfect | colimaba | colimabas | colimaba | colimábamos | colimabais | colimaban | |
preterite | colimé | colimaste | colimó | colimamos | colimasteis | colimaron | |
future | colimaré | colimarás | colimará | colimaremos | colimaréis | colimarán | |
conditional | colimaría | colimarías | colimaría | colimaríamos | colimaríais | colimarían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | colime | colimestú colimésvos2 | colime | colimemos | coliméis | colimen | |
imperfect (ra) | colimara | colimaras | colimara | colimáramos | colimarais | colimaran | |
imperfect (se) | colimase | colimases | colimase | colimásemos | colimaseis | colimasen | |
future1 | colimare | colimares | colimare | colimáremos | colimareis | colimaren | |
imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
affirmative | colimatú colimávos | colime | colimemos | colimad | colimen | ||
negative | no colimes | no colime | no colimemos | no coliméis | no colimen |
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Derived terms
- colimación
- colimador
Further reading
- “colimar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014