# recetar
## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* receptar (pre-1990 spelling)

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁe.seˈta(ʁ)/ [he.seˈta(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁe.seˈta(ʁ)/ [he.seˈta(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ʁe.seˈta(ɾ)/ [he.seˈta(ɾ)]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ʁe.seˈta(ʁ)/ [χe.seˈta(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ʁe.seˈta(ɻ)/ [he.seˈta(ɻ)]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʁɨ.sɛˈtaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʁɨ.sɛˈtaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ʁɨ.sɛˈta.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: re‧ce‧tar

### Verb

recetar (first-person singular present receto, first-person singular preterite recetei, past participle recetado)
* to keep something that was stolen

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

## Spanish
### Etymology

From receta (“prescription”) +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /reθeˈtaɾ/ [re.θeˈt̪aɾ]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /reseˈtaɾ/ [re.seˈt̪aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: re‧ce‧tar

### Verb

recetar (first-person singular present receto, first-person singular preterite receté, past participle recetado)
* (transitive) to prescribe
    Synonym: prescribir
** 2022 August 23, Pablo Linde, “El ejercicio físico es el ‘medicamento’ perfecto: ¿deberían los médicos recetarlo?”, in El País‎:Si el ejercicio físico fuera una pastilla, no habría médico que no la recetara.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Conjugation

| infinitive | infinitive | infinitive | recetar | recetar | recetar | recetar | recetar |
| gerund | gerund | gerund | recetando | recetando | recetando | recetando | recetando |
| past participle | past participle | | | masculine | masculine | feminine | feminine |
| past participle | past participle | singular | singular | recetado | recetado | recetada | recetada |
| past participle | past participle | plural | plural | recetados | recetados | recetadas | recetadas |
| | | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural |
| | | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person |
| indicative | | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes |
| indicative | present | receto | recetas$^{tú}$ recetás$^{vos}$ | receta | recetamos | recetáis | recetan |
| indicative | imperfect | recetaba | recetabas | recetaba | recetábamos | recetabais | recetaban |
| indicative | preterite | receté | recetaste | recetó | recetamos | recetasteis | recetaron |
| indicative | future | recetaré | recetarás | recetará | recetaremos | recetaréis | recetarán |
| indicative | conditional | recetaría | recetarías | recetaría | recetaríamos | recetaríais | recetarían |
| subjunctive | | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes |
| subjunctive | present | recete | recetes$^{tú}$ recetés$^{vos2}$ | recete | recetemos | recetéis | receten |
| subjunctive | imperfect (ra) | recetara | recetaras | recetara | recetáramos | recetarais | recetaran |
| subjunctive | imperfect (se) | recetase | recetases | recetase | recetásemos | recetaseis | recetasen |
| subjunctive | future$^1$ | recetare | recetares | recetare | recetáremos | recetareis | recetaren |
| imperative | | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes |
| imperative | affirmative | | receta$^{tú}$ recetá$^{vos}$ | recete | recetemos | recetad | receten |
| imperative | negative | | no recetes | no recete | no recetemos | no recetéis | no receten |
$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

### Further reading

* “recetar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014