rentar

Inherited from Old Catalan reentar, from Late Latin recentāre, from Latin recentem (“new”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [rənˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [renˈtaɾ]

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rentar (first-person singular present rento, first-person singular preterite rentí, past participle rentat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. to wash

   Synonyms: llavar, netejar

   rentar-se les dents ― to brush one's teeth

2. to wash up

• recent

• “rentar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From rente +‎ -ar.

rentar (first-person singular present rento, first-person singular preterite rentei, past participle rentado)

1. (intransitive) to pass by
2. (figurative, intransitive, colloquial) to boast of one's strength, to tout oneself [with a ‘to someone’]
3. (intransitive) to court, to woo, to flirt with, to give compliments [with a ‘to someone’]
4. (transitive) to provoke, to challenge
5. (transitive, Portugal, Algarve) to insult
6. (reflexive, Portugal, regional, vulgar) to fart noisily

• “rentar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
• “rentar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “rentar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024

From renta +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /renˈtaɾ/ [rẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ren‧tar

rentar (first-person singular present rento, first-person singular preterite renté, past participle rentado)

1. to rent

   Synonyms: alquilar, arrendar

2. to be worth it, to be worthwhile

   Synonym: valer la pena

• No me renta, estoy de chill - El Independiente
• “rentar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28