contestar

Borrowed from Latin contestārī (“to call to witness”).

contestar

1. to answer (make a reply or response to)
2. to answer back

• responder

contestar (first-person singular indicative present contesto, past participle contestáu)

1. to answer (make a reply or response to)
2. to answer back

• responder

Borrowed from Latin contestārī.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kun.təsˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kon.təsˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kon.tesˈtaɾ]

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• Homophone: contestà

contestar (first-person singular present contesto, first-person singular preterite contestí, past participle contestat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/ (ambitransitive)

1. to answer, to reply

   Synonym: respondre

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

From Latin contestārī.

• Hyphenation: con‧tes‧tar

contestar (first-person singular present contesto, first-person singular preterite contestei, past participle contestado)

1. (transitive) to challenge, dispute
2. (transitive) to contest
3. (transitive) to contradict
4. (intransitive) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• “contestar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “contestar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “contestar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “contestar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “contestar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “contestar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Latin contestārī (“to call to witness”).

• IPA^(key): /kontesˈtaɾ/ [kõn̪.t̪esˈt̪aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: con‧tes‧tar

contestar (first-person singular present contesto, first-person singular preterite contesté, past participle contestado)

1. to reply, retort, answer, respond

   Synonyms: responder, replicar

   Antonym: callar

• Contestar is a false friend, and does not mean "to contest". The words for "to contest" in Spanish are contender, concursar.

• “contestar”, 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