encima

• Rhymes: -imɐ
• Homophone: em cima
• Hyphenation: en‧ci‧ma

By confusion with embaixo, which doesn't have a space.

encima (not comparable)

1. (Brazil) misspelling of em cima

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

encima

1. inflection of encimar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Univerbation of en +‎ cima.

• IPA^(key): /enˈθima/ [ẽn̟ˈθi.ma] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /enˈsima/ [ẽnˈsi.ma] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -ima
• Syllabification: en‧ci‧ma
• Homophone: enzima

encima

1. on top of something
2. (loosely) above something

   Synonym: por encima

3. on oneself

   No tengo dinero encima.

   I don't have money on me.

4. additionally
5. nevertheless, still
6. to top it off, on top of that

encima

1. (used with possessive pronouns) on top of, (loosely) above

   Synonyms: encima de, (above) por encima de

   encima mío/mía ― on top of me

• The choice between mío/tuyo/suyo/nuestro/vuestro and mía/tuya/suya/nuestra/vuestra doesn't depend on the speaker's gender, so either gender may be used by anyone.

encima

1. inflection of encimar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “encima”, 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

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