remolcar

From Vulgar Latin *remurclāre, *remulculāre < remulcāre, from Latin remulcum (“towrope”).

remolcar (first-person singular indicative present remolco, past participle remolcáu)

1. to tow (pull something using a line)

Inherited from Latin remulcāre (“to tow”), from Latin remulcum (“towrope”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [rə.mulˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [rə.molˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [re.molˈkaɾ]

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• Homophone: remolcà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

remolcar (first-person singular present remolco, first-person singular preterite remolquí, past participle remolcat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /o/

1. (transitive) to tow (pull something using a line)

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

From Vulgar Latin *remurclāre, *remulculāre < remulcāre, from Latin remulcum (“towrope”).

• IPA^(key): /remolˈkaɾ/ [re.molˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: re‧mol‧car

remolcar (first-person singular present remolco, first-person singular preterite remolqué, past participle remolcado)

1. to tow, take in tow

• “remolcar”, 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