tesar

From tes (“tight”), or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *tēnsāre, from Latin tēnsus, perfect passive participle of tendō.

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

tesar (first-person singular present teso, first-person singular preterite tesí, past participle tesat); root stress: (Central, Balearic) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/

1. (transitive) to tighten, tauten
   • 2011, Daniel Closa i Autet, 100 invents que han canviat el món:

     Si posem la fletxa ben col·locada i tesem l'arc, el que fem és acumular una bona quantitat d'energia que, en deixar-la anar, s'alliberarà de cop i empenyerà la fletxa a gran velocitat.

     If we position the arrow well and tauten the bow, what we do is accumulate a good quantity of energy which, in letting go, is released at once and thrusts the arrow forward at high velocity.

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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tesařь.

tȅsār m (Cyrillic spelling те̏са̄р)

1. carpenter

• “tesar”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From a Vulgar Latin *tēnsāre, from Latin tēnsus, perfect passive participle of tendō.

• IPA^(key): /teˈsaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: te‧sar

tesar (first-person singular present teso, first-person singular preterite tesé, past participle tesado)

1. (nautical) to sweat

   Synonym: atesar

• “tesar”, 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