retrucar

retrucar

1. to answer, reply, retort, rejoin
2. to complain, grump

From re- +‎ trucar.

• IPA^(key): /retɾuˈkaɾ/

retrucar (first-person singular present retruco, first-person singular preterite retruquei, past participle retrucado)

1. to retort, reply

• trucar

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “retrucar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “retrucar”, 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), “retrucar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From re- +‎ trucar, which is from truque, borrowed from English truck.

• Hyphenation: re‧tru‧car

retrucar (first-person singular present retruco, first-person singular preterite retruquei, past participle retrucado)

1. to retort, reply

For quotations using this term, see Citations:retrucar.

• IPA^(key): /retɾuˈkaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: re‧tru‧car

retrucar (first-person singular present retruco, first-person singular preterite retruqué, past participle retrucado)

1. to retort

• “retrucar”, 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