refractar

Borrowed from English refract.

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

refractar (first-person singular present refracto, first-person singular preterite refractí, past participle refractat)

1. (transitive) to refract
2. (pronominal) to refract

   La llum es refracta en passar d'un medi a un altre.

   Light refracts when passing from one medium to another.

• refractiu

• “refractar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from French réfractaire, from Latin refractarius.

refractar m or n (feminine singular refractară, masculine plural refractari, feminine and neuter plural refractare)

1. refractory

From Latin refrāctum, neuter form of refrāctus, the perfect passive participle of refringō, itself from re- (“again”) + frangō (“to break”).

• IPA^(key): /refɾaɡˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: re‧frac‧tar

refractar (first-person singular present refracto, first-person singular preterite refracté, past participle refractado)

1. (transitive, optics) to refract

• “refractar”, 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