# tacar
## Catalan
### Etymology

From taca +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [təˈka]
* IPA: (Valencia) [taˈkaɾ]
* Homophone: tacà
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

### Verb

tacar (first-person singular present taco, first-person singular preterite taquí, past participle tacat)
* (transitive) to stain

#### Derived terms

* tacat

### Further reading

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

## Dalmatian
### Etymology

From Latin tacēre.

### Verb

tacar
* to be silent, keep quiet

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt̪ˠɑkəɾˠ/, /ˈt̪ˠakəɾˠ/

### Etymology 1

From Old Irish tacar, from to- + ad- + cor.

#### Noun

tacar m (genitive singular tacair, nominative plural tacair)
* verbal noun of tacair
* gleaning, collection
* (mathematics) set

##### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
tacar
tacair
vocative
a thacair
a thacara
genitive
tacair
tacar
dative
tacar
tacair
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an tacar
na tacair
genitive
an tacair
na dtacar
dative
leis an tacar don tacar
leis na tacair :

##### Derived terms

* fo-thacar (“subset”)
* tacar carachtar (“character set”)
* iamh an tacair (“closure of set”)

### Etymology 2

From Middle Irish tacair (attested only in the genitive singular).

#### Noun

tacar m (genitive singular tacair)
* (literary) art, contrivance

##### Usage notes

The predominant use of this word is the genitive singular tacair used attributively as an adjective meaning “artificial, imitation”, e.g. leathar tacair (“artificial leather”), marmar tacair (“imitation marble”).

##### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
nominative
tacar
vocative
a thacair
genitive
tacair
dative
tacar
forms with the definite article
case
singular
nominative
an tacar
genitive
an tacair
dative
leis an tacar don tacar :

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 tacair ‘artificial, contrived’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tacar ‘gathering, collection’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tacar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “tacar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “tacar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
* MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “tacar”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From taco (“stick, bat”) +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /taˈka(ʁ)/ [taˈka(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /taˈka(ʁ)/ [taˈka(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /taˈka(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /taˈka(ʁ)/ [taˈka(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /taˈka(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /tɐˈkaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /tɐˈkaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /tɐˈka.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: ta‧car

### Verb

tacar (first-person singular present taco, first-person singular preterite taquei, past participle tacado)
* to bat (hit with a bat)
* (Brazil) to launch; to cast; to toss (throw forcefully)
    Synonyms: lançar, arremessar

#### Conjugation

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

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### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taˈkaɾ/ [t̪aˈkaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: ta‧car

### Verb

tacar (first-person singular present taco, first-person singular preterite taqué, past participle tacado)
* (transitive) To hit the balls, in a game of billiards, with a cue
* (transitive) To put a bunch of people or things in one place.
* (transitive, archaic) To point out something, in doing so, causing a stain, a hole, some damage.

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

### Further reading

* “tacar”, 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

## Venetan
### Etymology

Compare Italian attaccare

### Verb

tacar
* to start, commence
* to attach, stick (to)
* to connect, link
* to attack, infect
* to light; to activate

#### Conjugation

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.