rebentar

Possibly from Vulgar Latin *repentare, from Latin repēns (“sudden, unexpected”).

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

rebentar (first-person singular present rebento, first-person singular preterite rebentí, past participle rebentat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (transitive, intransitive) to burst, explode, blow up, break
   • 1946, Ramon Vinyes i Cluet, A la boca dels núvols:

     Rebenta de sobte un gran terrabastall de trons que ha estat precedit per una enlluernadora llampegadissa.

     A great crashing din of thunderclaps, which has been preceded by a dazzling series of lighting flashes, suddenly bursts forth.

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese rebentar (13^th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *repentāre, from Latin repēns (“sudden, unexpected”).

• IPA^(key):

rebentar (first-person singular present rebento, first-person singular preterite rebentei, past participle rebentado)

1. to burst, explode
2. to break
3. to fatigue
4. to bud, to sprout

   Synonyms: agromar, brotar, xenar, xermolar

• rebento

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “rebentar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “rebentar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rebentar”, 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), “rebentar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rebentar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “rebentar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “rebentar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese rebentar, possibly from Vulgar Latin *repentāre, from Latin repēns (“sudden, unexpected”).

rebentar (first-person singular present rebento, first-person singular preterite rebentei, past participle rebentado)

1. to sprout
2. to burst, explode

• arrebentar

• “rebentar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “rebentar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025