destacar

destacar (first-person singular indicative present destaco, past participle destacáu)

1. to state, mention
2. to emphasize

Borrowed from Italian staccare.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [dəs.təˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [des.taˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

destacar (first-person singular present destaco, first-person singular preterite destaquí, past participle destacat)

1. (transitive) to detach (create a detachment)
2. to stand out
3. to emphasize

• destacable
• destacament

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

Borrowed from Spanish destacar, from French détacher, from Old French destachier (“detach”). Cognate with English detach.

• Hyphenation: des‧ta‧car

destacar (first-person singular present destaco, first-person singular preterite destaquei, past participle destacado)

1. to highlight, to underline

   Synonyms: marcar, sublinhar

   A frase a qual nos referimos está destacada. ― The sentence we refer to is highlighted.

2. to detach (or send on detachment)

   Synonyms: separar, tirar

   Por favor, destaque o adesivo. ― Please detach the sticker.

3. (reflexive) to stand out (to be noticeable among many)

   Synonyms: sobressair, brilhar, fulgurar

   Destacava-se pelo seu trabalho excepcional. ― He stood out because of his exceptional work.

• destaque

• “destacar”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2025

Borrowed from French détacher. Compare English detach.

• IPA^(key): /destaˈkaɾ/ [d̪es.t̪aˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: des‧ta‧car

destacar (first-person singular present destaco, first-person singular preterite destaqué, past participle destacado)

1. (transitive) to emphasize, to highlight, to stress, to point out, to single out, to underline, to underscore, to bring out, to note
   • 2014, Carmen Pereira-Muro, Culturas de España §9.p. 267:

     En música cabe destacar figuras como el compositor Isaac Albéniz, o el cellista Pau Casals, o al nivel de la cultura popular el grupo de la “Nova Cançó” catalana (Raimon, Joan Manuel Serrat, Lluis Llach, etc.), que reivindicó la canción en catalán en los últimos años de la dictadura.

     In music, it is worth highlighting people such as the composer Isaac Albéniz, or the cellist Pau Casals, or at the level of popular culture the circle of the Catalan Nova Cançó (Raimon, Joan Manuel Serrat, Lluis Llach, etc.) which reestablished the value of Catalan songs in the later years of the dictatorship.

2. (military, transitive) to detach troops
3. (intransitive, reflexive) to stand out, to excel, to shine (to make oneself stand out, to distinguish oneself)

   Synonym: sobresalir

4. (reflexive) to stand out, to jump out at (+ a) (i.e., to be highly noticeable to)
5. (reflexive) to be highlighted, emphasized, stressed, underlined, underscored, pointed out

• → Portuguese: destacar

• “destacar”, 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

Compare Italian staccare.

destacar

1. to remove, separate, etc.
2. to unhook, uncouple, disconnect etc.

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.