# rentar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan reentar, from Late Latin recentāre, from Latin recentem (“new”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [rənˈta]
* IPA: (Valencia) [renˈtaɾ]
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

rentar (first-person singular present rento, first-person singular preterite rentí, past participle rentat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/
* to wash
    Synonyms: llavar, netejar
    rentar-se les dents ― to brush one's teeth
* to wash up

#### Derived terms

* rentable
* rentacaps
* rentacares
* rentacotxes
* rentada
* rentadís
* rentadissa
* rentador
* rentadora
* rentament
* rentapeus
* rentaplats
* rentar el cervell
* rentar-se'n les mans
* rentar-se'n les mans com Pilat
* rentavaixella

#### Related terms

* recent

### Further reading

* “rentar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From rente +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁẽˈta(ʁ)/ [hẽˈta(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁẽˈta(ʁ)/ [hẽˈta(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ʁẽˈta(ɾ)/ [hẽˈta(ɾ)]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ʁẽˈta(ʁ)/ [χẽˈta(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ʁẽˈta(ɻ)/ [hẽˈta(ɻ)]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʁẽˈtaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʁẽˈtaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ʁẽˈta.ɾi/

### Verb

rentar (first-person singular present rento, first-person singular preterite rentei, past participle rentado)
* (intransitive) to pass by
* (figurative, intransitive, colloquial) to boast of one's strength, to tout oneself [with a ‘to someone’]
* (intransitive) to court, to woo, to flirt with, to give compliments [with a ‘to someone’]
* (transitive) to provoke, to challenge
* (transitive, Portugal, Algarve) to insult
* (reflexive, Portugal, regional, vulgar) to fart noisily

#### Conjugation

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

### References

* “rentar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
* “rentar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “rentar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

From renta +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /renˈtaɾ/ [rẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: ren‧tar

### Verb

rentar (first-person singular present rento, first-person singular preterite renté, past participle rentado)
* (Latin America, transitive) to rent
    Synonyms: alquilar, arrendar
* to be worth it, to be worthwhile
    Synonym: valer la pena

#### 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

* renta
* rentable

### Further reading

* “rentar”, 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
* “rentar”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
* No me renta, estoy de chill - El Independiente