arretar

Ladino

Alternative forms

  • aretar

Etymology

Borrowed from French arrêter.[1]

Verb

arretar

  1. (transitive) to stop
    Synonyms: akedar, arrestar, apuchar (Monastir), sesar
    • (Can we date this quote?), “Odisea”, in Folkmasa[1]:
      ya atorno; ma los diozes, parese, al kamino l'arretan.
      [Somebody] already returned, but the gods, it seems, stop him on his path.

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ arretar”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasure of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim