arrestar

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *arrestāre, from Latin ad- (“to”) + restō (“to stop, remain behind, stay back”), from re- (“back”) + stō (“to stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“stand”). Compare Occitan arrestar and French arrêter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Verb

arrestar (first-person singular present arresto, first-person singular preterite arrestí, past participle arrestat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /e/

1. to arrest

Conjugation

Related terms

• arrest

Further reading

• “arrestar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “arrestar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “arrestar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “arrestar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

arrestar m

1. indefinite plural of arrest

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan arrestar, from Vulgar Latin *arrestō, *arrestare, from Latin ad- (“to”) + restō (“I stop, remain behind, stay back”), from re- (“back”) + stō (“I stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“stand”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

arrestar

1. (transitive) to stop
2. (transitive) to arrest

Conjugation

    Lengadocian (Central Occitan)

		simple			compound
infinitive		arrestar			aver arrestat
gerund		arrestant			use gerund of aver + past participle
past participle		arrestat			—
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ieu	tu	el	nosautres	vosautres	eles
	present	arrèsti	arrèsti	arrèsta	arrestam	arrestatz	arrèstan
	imperfect	arrestavi	arrestavas	arrestava	arrestàvem	arrestàvetz	arrestan
	preterite	arrestèri	arrestères	arrestèt	arrestèrem	arrestèretz	arrestèron
	future	arrestarai	arrestaràs	arrestarà	arrestarem	arrestaretz	arrestaràn
	conditional	arrestariái	arrestariás	arrestariá	arrestariam	arrestariatz	arrestarián
	conditional 2nd form1	arrestèra	arrestèras	arrestèra	arresteram	arresteratz	arrestèran
compound tenses	present perfect	use the present tense of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle
	past anterior	use the preterite tense of aver + past participle
	future perfect	use the future tense of aver + past participle
	conditional perfect	use the conditional tense of aver + past participle
subjunctive		que ieu	que tu	que el	que nosautres	que vosautres	que eles
	present	arrèste	arrèstes	arrèste	arrestem	arrestetz	arrèsten
	imperfect	arrestèsse	arrestèsses	arrestèsse	arrestèssem	arrestèssetz	arrestèsson
compound tenses	past	use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle
imperative		—	tu	—	nosautres	vosautres	—
			arrèsta		arrestem	arrestatz	1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *arrestāre, from Latin ad- (“to”) + restō (“to stop, remain behind, stay back”), from re- (“back”) + stō (“to stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“stand”).

Pronunciation

Verb

arrestar (first-person singular present arresto, first-person singular preterite arrestei, past participle arrestado)

1. (law, transitive) to sequester the assets of a debtor, in order to ensure that they pay the debt
2. (archaic, transitive) to seize or confiscate

Conjugation

Derived terms

• arrestante
• arresto

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *arrestāre (see there for more), possibly via a Gallo-Romance intermediate, hence the lack of diphthongization in rhizotonic conjugations.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aresˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧rres‧tar

Verb

arrestar (first-person singular present arresto, first-person singular preterite arresté, past participle arrestado)

1. to arrest

   Synonym: detener

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

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