refutar

Borrowed from Latin refūtāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [rə.fuˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [re.fuˈtaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

refutar (first-person singular present refuto, first-person singular preterite refutí, past participle refutat)

1. to refute

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

From Latin refūtō.

refutar (first-person singular present refuto, first-person singular preterite refutei, past participle refutado)

1. (transitive) to refute (to prove (something) to be false or incorrect)

• “refutar” in DIGALEGO - Dicionario de Galego, Ir Indo 2004, Xunta de Galicia 2013.
• “refutar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “refutar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “refutar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

• IPA^(key): /refuˈtar/

refutar (present tense refutas, past tense refutis, future tense refutos, imperative refutez, conditional refutus)

1. to refute, to disprove, rebut

From Latin refūtāre.

refutar (first-person singular present refuto, first-person singular preterite refutei, past participle refutado)

1. (transitive) to refute or debunk (to prove (something) to be false or incorrect)

• refutável

• “refutar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From Latin refūtāre.

• IPA^(key): /refuˈtaɾ/ [re.fuˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: re‧fu‧tar

refutar (first-person singular present refuto, first-person singular preterite refuté, past participle refutado)

1. to refute

   Synonym: contradecir

• “refutar”, 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