retar

From 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.táɾ/

retar (Kana spelling レタㇻ)

1. to be white

Derived from Latin reputāre.

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

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.

• IPA^(key): /reˈtaɾ/ [reˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: rė‧tár

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

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “retar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “retar”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “arretar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “retar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “retar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “arretar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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. (Ecuador, Bolivia, Southern Cone) to scold, reprimand

   Synonyms: reñir, regañar

• “retar”, 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

retar

1. present indicative of reta

• arter