interceptar

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

interceptar (first-person singular present intercepto, first-person singular preterite interceptí, past participle interceptat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (transitive) to intercept (to stop, deflect or divert)
2. (transitive) to block, to obstruct
3. (mathematics) to intercept (to take or comprehend between)

• “interceptar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “interceptar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “interceptar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “interceptar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• intercetar (Portugal)

• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧cep‧tar

interceptar (first-person singular present intercepto, first-person singular preterite interceptei, past participle interceptado) (Brazilian Portuguese spelling, superseded in European Portuguese)

1. to intercept (catch something before it reaches its target)

• “interceptar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /inteɾθebˈtaɾ/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /inteɾsebˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: in‧ter‧cep‧tar

interceptar (first-person singular present intercepto, first-person singular preterite intercepté, past participle interceptado)

1. (transitive) to intercept
2. (transitive) to block, interrupt

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