calafatear
Galician
Alternative forms
- galafatear, garafetar
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese calafetar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Arabic قَلْفَطَ (qalfaṭa, “to caulk”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kalafateˈaɾ/
Verb
calafatear (first-person singular present calafateo, first-person singular preterite calafateei, past participle calafateado)
- to caulk (seal joints with caulk)
- 1433, A. Rodríguez González & J. Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 32:
- por calças et sevo et mangueiras et garafetar o tillado
- for wedges and tallow and hoses and caulking the deck
- por calças et sevo et mangueiras et garafetar o tillado
- 1433, A. Rodríguez González & J. Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 32:
Conjugation
Conjugation of calafatear
| singular | plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| person | first | second | third | first | second | third |
| Infinitive | eu | ti | el/ela/Vde. | nós | vós | eles/elas/Vdes. |
| impersonal | calafatear | |||||
| personal | calafatear | calafateares | calafatear | calafatearmos | calafateardes | calafatearen |
| Gerund | ||||||
| calafateando | ||||||
| Past participle | singular | plural | ||||
| masculine | calafateado | calafateados | ||||
| feminine | calafateada | calafateadas | ||||
| Indicative | eu | ti | el/ela/Vde. | nós | vós | eles/elas/Vdes. |
| present | calafateo | calafateas | calafatea | calafateamos | calafateades | calafatean |
| imperfect | calafateaba | calafateabas | calafateaba | calafateabamos | calafateabades | calafateaban |
| preterite | calafateei | calafateaches | calafateou | calafateamos | calafateastes | calafatearon |
| pluperfect | calafateara | calafatearas | calafateara | calafatearamos | calafatearades | calafatearan |
| future | calafatearei | calafatearás | calafateará | calafatearemos | calafatearedes | calafatearán |
| conditional | calafatearía | calafatearías | calafatearía | calafateariamos | calafateariades | calafatearían |
| Subjunctive | eu | ti | el/ela/Vde. | nós | vós | eles/elas/Vdes. |
| present | calafatee | calafatees | calafatee | calafateemos | calafateedes | calafateen |
| preterite | calafatease | calafateases | calafatease | calafateásemos | calafateásedes | calafateasen |
| future | calafatear | calafateares | calafatear | calafatearmos | calafateardes | calafatearen |
| Imperative | – | ti | el/ela/Vde. | nós | vós | eles/elas/Vdes. |
| affirmative | – | calafatea | calafatee | calafateemos | calafateade | calafateen |
| negative | – | calafatees | calafatee | calafateemos | calafateedes | calafateen |
Related terms
- calafate
- garafate
References
- “calafetar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “garaf” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “calafatear” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “calafatear” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “calafatear” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Spanish
Etymology
From calafate + -ear
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kalafateˈaɾ/ [ka.la.fa.t̪eˈaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: ca‧la‧fa‧te‧ar
Verb
calafatear (first-person singular present calafateo, first-person singular preterite calafateé, past participle calafateado)
- (transitive) to caulk (seal joints with caulk)
- Synonym: enmasillar
Conjugation
Conjugation of calafatear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | calafatear | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | calafateando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | calafateado | calafateada | |||||
| plural | calafateados | calafateadas | |||||
| 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 | calafateo | calafateastú calafateásvos | calafatea | calafateamos | calafateáis | calafatean | |
| imperfect | calafateaba | calafateabas | calafateaba | calafateábamos | calafateabais | calafateaban | |
| preterite | calafateé | calafateaste | calafateó | calafateamos | calafateasteis | calafatearon | |
| future | calafatearé | calafatearás | calafateará | calafatearemos | calafatearéis | calafatearán | |
| conditional | calafatearía | calafatearías | calafatearía | calafatearíamos | calafatearíais | calafatearían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | calafatee | calafateestú calafateésvos2 | calafatee | calafateemos | calafateéis | calafateen | |
| imperfect (ra) | calafateara | calafatearas | calafateara | calafateáramos | calafatearais | calafatearan | |
| imperfect (se) | calafatease | calafateases | calafatease | calafateásemos | calafateaseis | calafateasen | |
| future1 | calafateare | calafateares | calafateare | calafateáremos | calafateareis | calafatearen | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | calafateatú calafateávos | calafatee | calafateemos | calafatead | calafateen | ||
| negative | no calafatees | no calafatee | no calafateemos | no calafateéis | no calafateen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of calafatear
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| with infinitive calafatear | |||||||
| dative | calafatearme | calafatearte | calafatearle, calafatearse | calafatearnos | calafatearos | calafatearles, calafatearse | |
| accusative | calafatearme | calafatearte | calafatearlo, calafatearla, calafatearse | calafatearnos | calafatearos | calafatearlos, calafatearlas, calafatearse | |
| with gerund calafateando | |||||||
| dative | calafateándome | calafateándote | calafateándole, calafateándose | calafateándonos | calafateándoos | calafateándoles, calafateándose | |
| accusative | calafateándome | calafateándote | calafateándolo, calafateándola, calafateándose | calafateándonos | calafateándoos | calafateándolos, calafateándolas, calafateándose | |
| with informal second-person singular tú imperative calafatea | |||||||
| dative | calafatéame | calafatéate | calafatéale | calafatéanos | not used | calafatéales | |
| accusative | calafatéame | calafatéate | calafatéalo, calafatéala | calafatéanos | not used | calafatéalos, calafatéalas | |
| with informal second-person singular vos imperative calafateá | |||||||
| dative | calafateame | calafateate | calafateale | calafateanos | not used | calafateales | |
| accusative | calafateame | calafateate | calafatealo, calafateala | calafateanos | not used | calafatealos, calafatealas | |
| with formal second-person singular imperative calafatee | |||||||
| dative | calafatéeme | not used | calafatéele, calafatéese | calafatéenos | not used | calafatéeles | |
| accusative | calafatéeme | not used | calafatéelo, calafatéela, calafatéese | calafatéenos | not used | calafatéelos, calafatéelas | |
| with first-person plural imperative calafateemos | |||||||
| dative | not used | calafateémoste | calafateémosle | calafateémonos | calafateémoos | calafateémosles | |
| accusative | not used | calafateémoste | calafateémoslo, calafateémosla | calafateémonos | calafateémoos | calafateémoslos, calafateémoslas | |
| with informal second-person plural imperative calafatead | |||||||
| dative | calafateadme | not used | calafateadle | calafateadnos | calafateaos | calafateadles | |
| accusative | calafateadme | not used | calafateadlo, calafateadla | calafateadnos | calafateaos | calafateadlos, calafateadlas | |
| with formal second-person plural imperative calafateen | |||||||
| dative | calafatéenme | not used | calafatéenle | calafatéennos | not used | calafatéenles, calafatéense | |
| accusative | calafatéenme | not used | calafatéenlo, calafatéenla | calafatéennos | not used | calafatéenlos, calafatéenlas, calafatéense | |
Derived terms
- calafateador
Further reading
- “calafatear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014