reptar

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [rəpˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [repˈtaɾ]

Inherited from Latin reputāre. Doublet of reputar.

reptar (first-person singular present repto, first-person singular preterite reptí, past participle reptat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (transitive) to challenge
   • 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 17, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:

     Si tinguéssim una balança el reptaria a posar tots els seus llibres en un platet i l'Aneris en l'altre.

     If we had had scales, I would have challenged him to put all his books in one scale and Aneris in the other one.

Borrowed from Latin rēptāre.

reptar (first-person singular present repto, first-person singular preterite reptí, past participle reptat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (intransitive) to slither

• reptant

• reptació
• rèptil

• “reptar”, 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
• “reptar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “reptar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “reptar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

reptar

1. to creep
2. to crawl

• rebtar, rectar

Probably borrowed from Old Catalan or Old Occitan reptar, inherited from Latin reputāre.

reptar

1. to challenge, defy

• Spanish: retar

• Spanish: retar

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1985) “retar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 890

• Hyphenation: rep‧tar

Learned borrowing from Latin reptāre.

reptar (first-person singular present repto, first-person singular preterite reptei, past participle reptado)

1. (intransitive) to slither
2. (intransitive) to crawl, to creep

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin reputāre.

reptar (first-person singular present repto, first-person singular preterite reptei, past participle reptado)

1. (transitive) to challenge someone

   Synonym: desafiar

• repto

Borrowed from Latin reptāre.

• IPA^(key): /rebˈtaɾ/ [reβ̞ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: rep‧tar

reptar (first-person singular present repto, first-person singular preterite repté, past participle reptado)

1. to slither

   Synonym: deslizarse

2. to crawl; to creep

   Synonym: arrastrarse

• “reptar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• trepar