untar

From un- + tar.

untar (third-person singular simple present untars, present participle untarring or (uncommon) untaring, simple past and past participle untarred or (uncommon) untared)

1. (computing, transitive) To extract from a tar archive.
   • 2002, John Bryan Callender, Perl for Web site management, page 405:

     I untarred (and ungzipped) that file using the following command: […]

   • 2002, Luis Argerich, Professional PHP4 XML, page 764:

     This should completely reset everything to exactly the way it was after you untared/ungzipped PHP […]

• Rutan, Turan, arnut, run at, tanru

Inherited from Late Latin unctāre, frequentative of Latin ungere (via its past participle unctus), from earlier unguere, from Proto-Italic *ongʷō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“anoint”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [unˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [unˈtaɾ]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

untar (first-person singular present unto, first-person singular preterite untí, past participle untat)

1. (transitive) to anoint
2. (transitive) to smear, to grease
3. (transitive, figurative) to bribe
4. (reflexive) to get greasy, to smear oneself
5. (reflexive, figurative) to take a cut

• untuós
• untura

• “untar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “untar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “untar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “untar”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese untar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin unctāre, frequentative of Latin ungere (via its past participle unctus), from earlier unguere, from Proto-Italic *ongʷō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“anoint”).

• IPA^(key): /unˈtaɾ/ [un̪ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: un‧tar

untar (first-person singular present unto, first-person singular preterite untei, past participle untado)

1. to anoint
2. to smear; to spread
3. to bribe

• “untar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “untar” in DIGALEGO - Dicionario de Galego, Ir Indo 2004, Xunta de Galicia 2013.
• “untar”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “untar”, 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), “untar”, 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), “untar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “untar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “untar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Old Spanish untar, from Late Latin unctāre.

untar

1. to dip in a sauce or soup
2. to anoint

• undar, under

From Proto-West Germanic *undar (compare Old English under, Old Norse undir).

untar

1. under

• Middle High German: under
  • German: unter
  • Hunsrik: unne
  • Luxembourgish: ënner
  • Yiddish: אונטער (unter)

• unctar (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese untar, from Late Latin unctāre, frequentative of Latin ungere (via its past participle unctus), from earlier unguere, from Proto-Italic *ongʷō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“anoint”).

• Hyphenation: un‧tar

untar (first-person singular present unto, first-person singular preterite untei, past participle untado)

1. to smear; to spread (to distribute in a thin layer)

• untar as mãos a alguém

• “untar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “untar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “untar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “untar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From unt +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /unˈtar/

untar n (plural untari)

1. butter maker

• “untar”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

Inherited from Old Spanish untar, from Late Latin unctāre, frequentative of Latin ungere (via its past participle unctus), from earlier unguere, from Proto-Italic *ongʷō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“anoint”).

• IPA^(key): /unˈtaɾ/ [ũn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: un‧tar

untar (first-person singular present unto, first-person singular preterite unté, past participle untado)

1. (transitive) to spread, to smear; to rub on (to distribute in a thin layer over)

   pasta para untar ― spread [food that can be spread]

2. (transitive, colloquial) to bribe (to ask a person to do something in exchange for a reward)

   Synonym: sobornar

   medios untados

   bribed media

3. (reflexive) To get smeared

• “untar”, 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