tacar

From taca +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [təˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [taˈkaɾ]
• Homophone: tacà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

tacar (first-person singular present taco, first-person singular preterite taquí, past participle tacat)

1. (transitive) to stain

• tacat

• “tacar”, 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

From Latin tacēre.

tacar

1. to be silent, keep quiet

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪ˠɑkəɾˠ/, /ˈt̪ˠakəɾˠ/

From Old Irish tacar, from to- + ad- + cor.

tacar m (genitive singular tacair, nominative plural tacair)

1. verbal noun of tacair
2. gleaning, collection
3. (mathematics) set

• fo-thacar (“subset”)
• tacar carachtar (“character set”)
• iamh an tacair (“closure of set”)

From Middle Irish tacair (attested only in the genitive singular).

tacar m (genitive singular tacair)

1. (literary) art, contrivance

The predominant use of this word is the genitive singular tacair used attributively as an adjective meaning “artificial, imitation”, e.g. leathar tacair (“artificial leather”), marmar tacair (“imitation marble”).

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 tacair ‘artificial, contrived’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tacar ‘gathering, collection’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tacar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “tacar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “tacar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “tacar”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN

From taco (“stick, bat”) +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: ta‧car

tacar (first-person singular present taco, first-person singular preterite taquei, past participle tacado)

1. to bat (hit with a bat)
2. (Brazil) to launch; to cast; to toss (throw forcefully)

   Synonyms: lançar, arremessar

• IPA^(key): /taˈkaɾ/ [t̪aˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ta‧car

tacar (first-person singular present taco, first-person singular preterite taqué, past participle tacado)

1. (transitive) To hit the balls, in a game of billiards, with a cue
2. (transitive) To put a bunch of people or things in one place.
3. (transitive, archaic) To point out something, in doing so, causing a stain, a hole, some damage.

• “tacar”, 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

Compare Italian attaccare

tacar

1. to start, commence
2. to attach, stick (to)
3. to connect, link
4. to attack, infect
5. to light; to activate

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.