arăta

• areta — archaic or regional

Several hypotheses exist; one most often proposed is Vulgar Latin *arrēctāre (whence also Portuguese arreitar and Neapolitan arrezzà/arrizzà), from Latin rēctus (“straight”), but the phonetic evolution would be irregular in this case; another possibility is Latin ratāre,^[1] as a frequentative of reor (“consider”) (past participle ratus), or from a Vulgar Latin ēlatāre, as a frequentative of efferō (“bring out or forth; produce, yield; emit”) (past participle ēlātus). One theory suggests it is the result of the convergence of three originally separate verbs: in addition to ēlatāre producing the standard form arăta, Latin *elitāre (from litō, litāre (“obtain or promise good omens”)) produces the mostly regional or archaic variant form areta and *arreptāre (from arreptus, past participle of arripiō (“seize; procure, appropriate”)) produces the obsolete arreta;^[2] these verbs then gradually merged together phonetically. Other etymologies link a Vulgar Latin *arreptāre instead to a contraction of ad-reputāre, but this is less likely.

• IPA^(key): [a.rəˈta]

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a arăta (third-person singular present arată, past participle arătat, third-person subjunctive arate) 1st conjugation

1. (transitive) to show [with dative]

   Poți să mi-l arăți?

   Can you show it to me?

2. (transitive or intransitive) to point out (single out) [with direct object or la]

   a arăta cu degetul ― to point a finger

3. (intransitive, copulative) to look (appear)

   Arăți bine. ― You look good.

4. (reflexive) to show oneself, appear
5. (transitive) to show (prove)

   Synonyms: dovedi, stabili

• arătare
• arătat
• arătător
• arătos