coartar

Borrowed from Latin coartāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ku.ərˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ko.ərˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ko.aɾˈtaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

coartar (first-person singular present coarto, first-person singular preterite coartí, past participle coartat)

1. to limit, restrict

• coartada

• “coartar”, 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
• “coartar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “coartar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “coartar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin coartāre.

• IPA^(key): /koaɾˈtaɾ/ [ko.aɾˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: co‧ar‧tar

coartar (first-person singular present coarto, first-person singular preterite coarté, past participle coartado)

1. to limit, restrict
2. to inhibit, to cramp someone's style

• “coartar”, 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