# untar
## English
### Etymology

From un- +‎ tar.

### Verb

untar (third-person singular simple present untars, present participle untaring or untarring, simple past and past participle untared or untarred)
* (computing, transitive) To extract from a tar archive.
** 2002, John Bryan Callender, Perl for Web site management, page 405:I untarred (and ungzipped) that file using the following command: […]
** 2002, Luis Argerich, Professional PHP4 XML, page 764:This should completely reset everything to exactly the way it was after you untared/ungzipped PHP […]

### Anagrams

* Rutan, Turan, arnut, run at, tanru

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin unctāre, frequentative of Latin ungere (via its past participle unctus), from earlier unguere, from Proto-Italic *ongʷō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“anoint”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [unˈta]
* IPA: (Valencia) [unˈtaɾ]
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

### Verb

untar (first-person singular present unto, first-person singular preterite untí, past participle untat)
* (transitive) to anoint
* (transitive) to smear, to grease
* (transitive, figurative) to bribe
* (reflexive) to get greasy, to smear oneself
* (reflexive, figurative) to take a cut

#### Derived terms

* unt
* untador
* untament
* untatge
* untet
* untó

#### Related terms

* untuós
* untura

### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese untar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin unctāre, frequentative of Latin ungere (via its past participle unctus), from earlier unguere, from Proto-Italic *ongʷō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“anoint”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [unˈtaɾ]

### Verb

untar (first-person singular present unto, first-person singular preterite untei, past participle untado)
* to anoint
* to smear; to spread
* to bribe

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

### References

* “untar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “untar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “untar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “untar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “untar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “untar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Ladino
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish untar, from Late Latin unctāre.

### Verb

untar (Latin spelling)
* to dip in a sauce or soup
* to anoint

## Old High German
### Alternative forms

* undar, under

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *undar (compare Old English under, Old Norse undir).

### Preposition

untar
* under

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: unter
** German: unter
** Hunsrik: unne
** Luxembourgish: ënner
** Yiddish: אונטער (unter)

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* unctar (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese untar, from Late Latin unctāre, frequentative of Latin ungere (via its past participle unctus), from earlier unguere, from Proto-Italic *ongʷō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“anoint”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ũˈta(ʁ)/ [ũˈta(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ũˈta(ʁ)/ [ũˈta(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ũˈta(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ũˈta(ʁ)/ [ũˈta(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ũˈta(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ũˈtaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ũˈtaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ũˈta.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: un‧tar

### Verb

untar (first-person singular present unto, first-person singular preterite untei, past participle untado)
* to smear; to spread (to distribute in a thin layer)

#### Conjugation

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

#### Derived terms

* untar as mãos a alguém

#### Related terms

* ungir
* untadela
* untado
* untador
* untadura
* unteiro
* unto
* untório
* untura

### Further reading

* “untar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “untar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Romanian
### Etymology

From unt +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /unˈtar/

### Noun

untar n (plural untari)
* butter maker

#### Declension
### Further reading

* untar in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish untar, from Late Latin unctāre, frequentative of Latin ungere (via its past participle unctus), from earlier unguere, from Proto-Italic *ongʷō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“anoint”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /unˈtaɾ/ [ũn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: un‧tar

### Verb

untar (first-person singular present unto, first-person singular preterite unté, past participle untado)
* (transitive) to spread, to smear; to rub on (to distribute in a thin layer over)
    pasta para untar ― spread [food that can be spread]
* (transitive, colloquial) to bribe (to ask a person to do something in exchange for a reward)
    Synonym: sobornar
    medios untadosbribed media
* (reflexive) To get smeared

#### 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.

#### Related terms

* unción
* ungir
* untuoso
* untura

### Further reading

* “untar”, 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