untar

un- +‎ tar

untar (third-person singular simple present untars, present participle untaring or untarring, simple past and past participle untared or untarred)

1. (computing, transitive) To extract from a tar archive.
   • 2002, John Bryan Callender, Perl for Web site management, page 405:

     I untarred (and ungzipped) that file using the following command: […]

   • 2002, Luis Argerich, Professional PHP4 XML, page 764:

     This should completely reset everything to exactly the way it was after you untared/ungzipped PHP […]

• Rutan, Turan, arnut, run at, tanru

From Late Latin unctāre, frequentative of Latin ungere (via its past participle unctus), from earlier unguere, from Proto-Italic *ongʷō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“anoint”).

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /unˈta/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /unˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

untar (first-person singular present unto, past participle untat)

1. (transitive) to anoint
2. (transitive) to smear, to grease
3. (transitive, figurative) to bribe
4. (reflexive) to get greasy, to smear oneself
5. (reflexive, figurative) to take a cut

• untuós
• untura

• “untar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Old Galician-Portuguese untar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin unctāre, frequentative of Latin ungere (via its past participle unctus), from earlier unguere, from Proto-Italic *ongʷō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“anoint”).

• IPA^(key): [unˈtaɾ]

untar (first-person singular present unto, first-person singular preterite untei, past participle untado)

1. to anoint
2. to smear; to spread
3. to bribe

• “untar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “untar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “untar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “untar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “untar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• undar, under

From Proto-Germanic *under (compare Old English under, Old Norse undir).

untar

1. under

• Middle High German: unter
  • German: unter
  • Hunsrik: unne
  • Luxembourgish: ënner
  • Yiddish: אונטער‎ (unter)

• unctar (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese untar, from Late Latin unctāre, frequentative of Latin ungere (via its past participle unctus), from earlier unguere, from Proto-Italic *ongʷō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“anoint”).

• Hyphenation: un‧tar

untar (first-person singular present unto, first-person singular preterite untei, past participle untado)

1. to smear; to spread (to distribute in a thin layer)

• untar as mãos a alguém

unt +‎ -ar

untar n (plural untari)

1. butter maker

From Old Spanish untar, from Late Latin unctāre, frequentative of Latin ungere (via its past participle unctus), from earlier unguere, from Proto-Italic *ongʷō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“anoint”).

• IPA^(key): /unˈtaɾ/ [ũn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: un‧tar

untar (first-person singular present unto, first-person singular preterite unté, past participle untado)

1. (transitive) to spread, to smear; to rub on (to distribute in a thin layer over)

   pasta para untar ― spread [food that can be spread]

2. (transitive, colloquial) to bribe (to ask a person to do something in exchange for a reward)

   Synonym: sobornar

   medios untados

   bribed media

• “untar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014