rematar

From re- +‎ matar.

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

rematar (first-person singular present remato, first-person singular preterite rematí, past participle rematat)

1. (transitive, pronominal) to finish off, complete

   rematar una feina ― to finish a job

2. (transitive) to sell at an auction
3. (especially soccer) to shoot at goal

   rematar un córner ― to shoot at goal after getting the ball from a corner kick

• rematador

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

• tararem, taràrem, tramaré, tremarà

• arrematar, romatar

From Old Galician-Portuguese rematar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from re- +‎ matar.

• IPA^(key): /remaˈtaɾ/

rematar (first-person singular present remato, first-person singular preterite rematei, past participle rematado)

1. (intransitive) to finish
2. (transitive) to finish off
3. (transitive) to conclude, close
4. (transitive) to auction, auction off
   • 1432, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 450:

     Iten se rematou da Rúa dos Çapateiros hua manta e hua capa de Sancha Lourença, por XVII mrs, en Pero de Temees

     Item, of the Shoemakers Street, a blanket and a cloak of Sancha Lourenzo were auctioned for 17 maravedis to Pedro de Temes

• matar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “rematar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “remat”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rematar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “rematar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “rematar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “rematar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rematar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• arrematar

Possibly from re- +‎ matar.

• Hyphenation: re‧ma‧tar

rematar (first-person singular present remato, first-person singular preterite rematei, past participle rematado)

1. to finish off
2. to shoot

• Macanese: ramatâ

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

• arrematar

From re- +‎ matar.

• IPA^(key): /remaˈtaɾ/

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: re‧ma‧tar

rematar (first-person singular present remato, first-person singular preterite rematé, past participle rematado)

1. (literally) to finish off; to kill

   Remató al animal para que no sufriera más.

   He finished off the animal so that it would not suffer any more.

2. (figurative) to complete, to end, bring to an end, terminate

   Synonyms: acabar, finalizar, terminar

3. to buy or sell at an auction

   Synonym: subastar

4. (especially soccer) to shoot at goal
5. (reflexive) to perish

• “rematar”, 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