significar
/siɡnifiˈkaɾ/ · A1 · verb
to mean
🪧 signi + ficar = sign + make: to make a sign of something, hence to mean
From Latin significare: signum (sign) + facere (to make). Same root as English signify, so swap -fy for -ficar, just like clarify/clarificar and identify/identificar. A word makes a sign pointing at its meaning.