# reto
## Asturian
### Verb

reto
* first-person singular present indicative of retar

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈrɛ.tu]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈrɛ.to]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈre.to]

### Verb

reto
* first-person singular present indicative of retre

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From French rets, Italian rete, Spanish red, ultimately from Latin rēte.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈreto]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -eto
* Hyphenation: re‧to

### Noun

reto (accusative singular reton, plural retoj, accusative plural retojn)
* net (in most senses, including mesh, tool for trapping, figurative, computing network, Internet)

#### Derived terms

* ĉefreto
* eksterreta (“offline”)
* enreta (“online”)
* retejo (“website”)
* retpaĝo (“webpage”)
* retpoŝto (“email”)
* retumi (“to surf the internet, to browse”)
* retumilo (“web browser”)

## Galician
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

reto m (plural retos)
* challenge

##### Related terms

* retar

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

reto
* first-person singular present indicative of retar

## Ido
### Etymology

From Esperanto reto, from French rets, Italian rete, Spanish red, ultimately from Latin rēte.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈreto/

### Noun

reto (plural reti)
* net, mesh, network, netting, web
* (computing, Internet) Short for Interreto (“Internet”) (the Net); web
    Synonym: Interreto

#### Derived terms

* ekreta (“offline”)
* enreta (“online”)
* Interreto (“Internet”)
* retoloko, retosituo (“website”)
* retopagino (“web page”)

### See also

* masho

## Latvian
### Adjective

reto
* inflection of retais:
** vocative/accusative/instrumental singular masculine/feminine
** genitive plural masculine/feminine

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* recto (pre-1990 spelling)

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁɛ.tu/ [ˈhɛ.tu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁɛ.tu/ [ˈhɛ.tu]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈʁɛ.tu/ [ˈχɛ.tu]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁɛ.to/ [ˈhɛ.to]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʁɛ.tu/
* Rhymes: -ɛtu
* Hyphenation: re‧to

### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin rectus. Displaced Old Galician-Portuguese reyto.

#### Adjective

reto (feminine reta, masculine plural retos, feminine plural retas, comparable, comparative mais reto, superlative o mais reto or retíssimo)
* straight (not crooked or bent)
* honest, honorable, upright, righteous, just (of a person or institution)
* (geometry) right (of an angle)
* (linguistics, attributive, of a pronoun) subject (used in the nominative case)
    Antonym: oblíquo
    Os pronomes retos na língua portuguesa são "eu", "tu", "você", "ele", "ela", "nós", "vós", "vocês", "eles" e "elas".The subject pronouns in the Portuguese language are "eu", "tu", "você", "ele", "ela", "nós", "vós", "vocês", "eles", and "elas"

### Etymology 2

From earlier recto, from New Latin rectum intestinum (“the straight intestine”).

#### Noun

reto m (plural retos)
* (anatomy) rectum (terminal part of the large intestine)

#### Further reading

* “reto” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈreto/ [ˈre.t̪o]
* Rhymes: -eto
* Syllabification: re‧to

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish repto, rebto, riepto, from Old Spanish rebtar + -o, inherited from Latin reputāre; equivalent to modern retar +‎ -o. Cognate with English repute.

#### Noun

reto m (plural retos)
* challenge (a difficult task)
    hacer(le) frente a un reto, enfrentar un reto ― to face a challenge
    La pobreza es un reto para el desarrollo de muchas partes del África.Poverty is a challenge to the development of many parts of Africa.
* dare
    Me impuso un reto del que no puedo escapar.He imposed a dare on me from which I can't escape.
* (Southern Cone) scolding; insult
** 2025 February 20, Horacio Aizpepolea, “Milei viajó a EE.UU. con el escándalo cripto como mochila”, in Río Negro, General Roca, page 11:Los retos públicos del vocero Manuel Adorni y del jefe de Gabinete, Guillermo Francos, al asesor presidencial, Santiago Caputo, por su intervención en la entrevista de Milei al periodista Joni Viale, parecieron dejar al descubierto una crisis en la Casa Rosada.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

reto
* first-person singular present indicative of retar

### Further reading

* “reto”, 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

### Anagrams

* rote
* roté
* tero

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish reto.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈɾeto/ [ˈɾɛː.t̪o]
* Rhymes: -eto
* Syllabification: re‧to

### Noun

reto (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜆᜓ)
* challenge
    Synonyms: hamon, paghamon, paghahamon
* (slang) introduction to someone (in matchmaking, especially to one's friend)

#### Derived terms

* ireto
* retuhan
* retuhin

### Anagrams

* tore