tipifican

Tipifican is the third-person plural present indicative form of the Spanish verb tipificar. The verb means to typify, to classify, or to assign something to a type or category. It is used in everyday language as well as in legal, criminological, and sociological contexts to indicate that a set of actions or phenomena is being categorized according to a defined type or rule.

Etymology and related forms: Tipificar comes from typus (type) with the Spanish suffix -ificar, meaning “to make into a type.” The related noun tipificación denotes the act or result of typifying, while tipificado is the adjective meaning classified as a type. These forms are common in formal and technical writing.

Contexts and usage: In legal contexts, tipificar is frequently used to describe the process of defining conduct as a crime or offense within a statute, a practice often referred to as the tipificación de delitos. In criminology or sociology, tipificar describes the creation of typologies or categories for behaviors, phenomena, or social groups. Example sentences include: “Las autoridades tipifican estas conductas como infracciones administrativas,” and “El código penal tipifica como delito la falsificación de documentos.” The plural form tipifican agrees with plural subjects, as in “Las conductas tipifican un conjunto de delitos.”

See also: tipificación, tipificado, tipificar en derecho. The term is primarily used in formal or technical language and can carry varying connotations depending on the legal or academic context in which it appears.