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)

1. (physics) to collimate

Conjugation

    Conjugation of colimar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			colimar
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

¹Rare; now chiefly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tuteo-form for the present subjunctive.

Derived terms

• colimación
• colimador

Further reading

• “colimar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024