reto

reto

1. first-person singular present indicative of retar

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈrɛ.tu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈrɛ.to]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈre.to]

reto

1. first-person singular present indicative of retre

From French rets, Italian rete, Spanish red, ultimately from Latin rēte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈreto/

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• Rhymes: -eto
• Hyphenation: re‧to

reto (accusative singular reton, plural retoj, accusative plural retojn)

1. net (in most senses, including mesh, tool for trapping, figurative, computing network, Internet)

reto m (plural retos)

1. challenge

• retar

reto

1. first-person singular present indicative of retar

From Esperanto reto, from French rets, Italian rete, Spanish red, ultimately from Latin rēte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈreto/

reto (plural reti)

1. net, mesh, network, netting, web
2. (computing, Internet) short for Interreto (“Internet”) (the Net); web

   Synonym: Interreto

• masho

reto

1. inflection of rets:
   1. definite vocative/accusative/instrumental masculine/feminine singular
   2. definite genitive masculine/feminine plural

• recto (pre-1990 spelling)

• Rhymes: -ɛtu
• Hyphenation: re‧to

Learned borrowing from Latin rectus. Displaced Old Galician-Portuguese reyto.

reto (feminine reta, masculine plural retos, feminine plural retas, comparable, comparative mais reto, superlative o mais reto or retíssimo, diminutive retinho, augmentative retão)

1. straight (not crooked or bent)
2. honest, honorable, upright, righteous, just (of a person or institution)
3. (geometry) right (of an angle)
4. (linguistics, attributive, of a pronoun) subject (used in the nominative case)

   Antonym: oblíquo

   Os pronomes retos na língua portuguesa são "eu", "tu", "você", "ele", "ela", "nós", "vós", "vocês", "eles" e "elas".

   The subject pronouns in the Portuguese language are "eu", "tu", "você", "ele", "ela", "nós", "vós", "vocês", "eles", and "elas"

From earlier recto, from New Latin rectum intestinum (“the straight intestine”).

reto m (plural retos)

1. (anatomy) rectum (terminal part of the large intestine)

• “reto” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

• IPA^(key): /ˈreto/ [ˈre.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -eto
• Syllabification: re‧to

Inherited from Old Spanish repto, rebto, riepto, from Old Spanish rebtar + -o, inherited from Latin reputāre; equivalent to modern retar +‎ -o. Cognate with English repute.

reto m (plural retos)

1. challenge (a difficult task)

   hacer(le) frente a un reto, enfrentar un reto ― to face a challenge

   La pobreza es un reto para el desarrollo de muchas partes del África.

   Poverty is a challenge to the development of many parts of Africa.

2. dare

   Me impuso un reto del que no puedo escapar.

   He imposed a dare on me from which I can't escape.

3. (Southern Cone) scolding; insult
   • 2025 February 20, Horacio Aizpepolea, “Milei viajó a EE.UU. con el escándalo cripto como mochila”, in Río Negro, General Roca, page 11:

     Los retos públicos del vocero Manuel Adorni y del jefe de Gabinete, Guillermo Francos, al asesor presidencial, Santiago Caputo, por su intervención en la entrevista de Milei al periodista Joni Viale, parecieron dejar al descubierto una crisis en la Casa Rosada.

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

reto

1. first-person singular present indicative of retar

• “reto”, 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

• rote
• roté
• tero

Borrowed from Spanish reto.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɾeto/ [ˈɾɛː.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -eto
• Syllabification: re‧to

reto (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜆᜓ)

1. challenge

   Synonyms: hamon, paghamon, paghahamon

2. (slang) introduction to someone (in matchmaking, especially to one's friend)

• tore