retar

re- +‎ tar

retar (third-person singular simple present retars, present participle retarring, simple past and past participle retarred)

1. (transitive) To provide (a road, etc.) with a new coating of tar.

• Arter, Terra, arrêt, arter, rater, tarre, terra

• IPA^(key): /ɾe.taɾ/

retar (Kana spelling レタㇻ)

1. to be white

From Latin reputāre, present active infinitive of reputō.

retar (first-person singular indicative present reto, past participle retáu)

1. to challenge (to invite someone to take part in a competition)

• desafiar

• retu

• arretar

From Old French reter, from Latin reputāre, present active infinitive of reputō.

• IPA^(key): /reˈtaɾ/

retar (first-person singular present reto, first-person singular preterite retei, past participle retado)

1. to defy, challenge
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 710:

     Monesteus, o duc de Atenas, se leuantou entõ en pe, et diso que el o defendería moy bẽ contra qualquer que o quisese rretar ou quisese dizer que el [nõ] deuía a rreynar

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2. to reprimand, scold
3. to incite, stir up

   Synonyms: apurrar, encirrar

• reto

• “retar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “retar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “arretar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “retar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “retar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “arretar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Inherited from Old Spanish reptar, probably borrowed from Old Catalan or Old Occitan reptar, inherited from Latin reputāre.[1] Doublet of reputar, a borrowing from Latin.

• IPA^(key): /reˈtaɾ/ [reˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: re‧tar

retar (first-person singular present reto, first-person singular preterite reté, past participle retado)

1. to defy, challenge

   Synonym: desafiar

2. to dare
3. to call out (i.e. to criticize or expose)
4. (Argentina, Chile) to scold, reprimand

   Synonyms: reñir, regañar

• “retar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

retar

1. present indicative of reta

• arter