arrestar

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.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.rəsˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.resˈtaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Hyphenation: a‧rres‧tar

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

1. to arrest

• “arrestar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “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.

arrestar m

1. indefinite plural of arrest

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”).

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arrestar

1. (transitive) to stop
2. (transitive) to arrest

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”).

arrestar (first-person singular present arresto, first-person singular preterite arrestei, past participle arrestado)

1. (law, transitive) to sequester the assets of a debtor, in order to ensure that they pay the debt
2. (archaic, transitive) to seize or confiscate

• arrestante
• arresto

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *arrestāre (see there for more), possibly via a Gallo-Romance intermediate,^[1] hence the lack of diphthongization in rhizotonic conjugations.

• IPA^(key): /aresˈtaɾ/ [a.resˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧rres‧tar

arrestar (first-person singular present arresto, first-person singular preterite arresté, past participle arrestado)

1. to arrest

   Synonym: detener

• “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], 10 December 2024