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reto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of retar

reto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of retre

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

  • IPA(key): [ˈreto]
  • 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

reto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of retar

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

reto (plural reti)

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

reto

  1. inflection of retais:
    1. vocative/accusative/instrumental singular masculine/feminine
    2. genitive plural masculine/feminine
  • 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)

  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.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

reto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of retar

Borrowed from Spanish reto.

reto (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜆᜓ)

  1. challenge
    Synonyms: hamon, paghamon, paghahamon
  2. (slang) introduction to someone (in matchmaking, especially to one's friend)