recuar

• arrecuar

From re- +‎ cu (“ass, back”). Compare Portuguese recuar, Spanish recular, French reculer and English recoil.

• IPA^(key): /rekuˈaɾ/

recuar (first-person singular present recúo, first-person singular preterite recuei, past participle recuado)

1. to recede, to get back

   Synonyms: cear, desandar, estear, retroceder

2. to retreat; to desist

   Synonym: desistir

3. to recoil

• cu

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

From re- +‎ cu +‎ -ar. Compare Spanish and Catalan recular, French reculer.

• Hyphenation: re‧cu‧ar

recuar (first-person singular present recuo, first-person singular preterite recuei, past participle recuado)

1. to recede, retreat
2. to indent
3. to recoil, flinch
4. inflection of recuar:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive