# arrestar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *arrestāre, from Latin ad- (“to”) + restō (“to stop, remain behind, stay back”), from re- (“back”) + stō (“to stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“stand”). Compare Occitan arrestar and French arrêter.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ə.rəsˈta]
* IPA: (Valencia) [a.resˈtaɾ]
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

### Verb

arrestar (first-person singular present arresto, first-person singular preterite arrestí, past participle arrestat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/
* to arrest

#### Related terms

* arrest

### Further reading

* “arrestar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “arrestar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “arrestar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “arrestar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

arrestar m
* indefinite plural of arrest

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Old Occitan arrestar, from Vulgar Latin *arrestō, *arrestare, from Latin ad- (“to”) + restō (“I stop, remain behind, stay back”), from re- (“back”) + stō (“I stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“stand”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

arrestar
* (transitive) to stop
* (transitive) to arrest

#### Conjugation
## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *arrestāre, from Latin ad- (“to”) + restō (“to stop, remain behind, stay back”), from re- (“back”) + stō (“to stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“stand”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /a.ʁesˈta(ʁ)/ [a.hesˈta(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /a.ʁesˈta(ʁ)/ [a.hesˈta(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /a.ʁesˈta(ɾ)/ [a.hesˈta(ɾ)]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /a.ʁeʃˈta(ʁ)/ [a.χeʃˈta(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /a.ʁesˈta(ɻ)/ [a.hesˈta(ɻ)]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.ʁɨʃˈtaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.ʁɨʃˈtaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.ʁɨʃˈta.ɾi/

### Verb

arrestar (first-person singular present arresto, first-person singular preterite arrestei, past participle arrestado)
* (law, transitive) to sequester the assets of a debtor, in order to ensure that they pay the debt
* (archaic, transitive) to seize or confiscate

#### Conjugation

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

#### Derived terms

* arrestante
* arresto

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *arrestāre (see there for more), possibly via a Gallo-Romance intermediate, hence the lack of diphthongization in rhizotonic conjugations.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aresˈtaɾ/ [a.resˈt̪aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: a‧rres‧tar

### Verb

arrestar (first-person singular present arresto, first-person singular preterite arresté, past participle arrestado)
* to arrest
    Synonym: detener

#### Conjugation

$^1$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.

#### Derived terms

* arresto

#### Related terms

* restar

### Further reading

* “arrestar”, 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
* ↑ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*arrĕstare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 316