ostentar

Borrowed from Latin ostentāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [us.tənˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [os.tənˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [os.tenˈtaɾ]

ostentar (first-person singular present ostento, first-person singular preterite ostentí, past participle ostentat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (transitive) to display, to flaunt
2. (transitive) to hold, to possess (a title or position)

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

Borrowed from Latin ostentāre.

ostentar (first-person singular present ostento, first-person singular preterite ostentei, past participle ostentado)

1. to display, flaunt

• ostentação

Borrowed from Latin ostentāre. Related to English ostentatious.

• IPA^(key): /ostenˈtaɾ/ [os.t̪ẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: os‧ten‧tar

ostentar (first-person singular present ostento, first-person singular preterite ostenté, past participle ostentado)

1. to display, to flaunt
   • January 3rd, 1832, Necrologia Gaceta de Madrid, Imprenta Real, page 98:

     [...]; y conociendo su posición se fortaleció con los auxilios de la religión, ostentando hasta en su último aliento la resignación de un buen cristiano, y espirando como el hombre de bien, y con la serenidad de un bizarro militar.

     [...]; and knowing his position he strengthened himself with the aid of religion, flaunting in his last breath the resignation of a good Christian, and expiring as the good man, and with the serenity of a noble soldier.

2. to hold, to possess (a title, position, nobility etc.)

   ostentar el récord

   hold the record

• “ostentar”, 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