rentar

Inherited from Old Catalan reentar, from Late Latin recentāre, from Latin recentem (“new”).

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

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rentar (first-person singular present rento, first-person singular preterite rentí, past participle rentat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. to wash

   Synonyms: llavar, netejar

   rentar-se les dents ― to brush one's teeth

2. to wash up

• recent

• “rentar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From rente +‎ -ar.

rentar (first-person singular present rento, first-person singular preterite rentei, past participle rentado)

1. (intransitive) to pass by
2. (figurative, intransitive, colloquial) to boast of one's strength, to tout oneself
3. (intransitive) to court, to woo, to flirt with, to give compliments
4. (transitive) to provoke, to challenge
5. (transitive, Portugal, Algarve) to insult
6. (reflexive, Portugal, regional, vulgar) to fart noisily

• “rentar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
• “rentar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “rentar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024

From renta +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /renˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ren‧tar

rentar (first-person singular present rento, first-person singular preterite renté, past participle rentado)

1. to rent

   Synonyms: alquilar, arrendar

2. to be worth it, to be worthwhile

   Synonym: valer la pena

• No me renta, estoy de chill - El Independiente
• “rentar”, 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