regresar

• regressar (reintegrationist)

regresar (first-person singular present regreso, first-person singular preterite regresei, past participle regresado)

1. to return

• “regresar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Borrowed from Esperanto regresi, English regress.

• IPA^(key): /reɡreˈsar/

regresar (present tense regresas, past tense regresis, future tense regresos, imperative regresez, conditional regresus)

1. (intransitive) to go back
2. (intransitive) to recede
3. (intransitive) to regress
4. (intransitive) to move backward

• progresar

From Latin regressus, from re- + gressus; cognate with English regress.

• IPA^(key): /reɡɾeˈsaɾ/ [re.ɣ̞ɾeˈsaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: re‧gre‧sar

regresar (first-person singular present regreso, first-person singular preterite regresé, past participle regresado)

1. (intransitive) to return, go back, come back

   Synonym: volver

   Me gustaría regresar otro día.

   I would like to come back another day.

   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 260:

     La paloma es un animal bendito, porque regresó al Arca llevando la rama de oliva.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “regresar”, 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