represalia

See also: represaliá, represália, and represàlia

Catalan

Verb

represalia

1. inflection of represaliar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /repɾeˈsalja/ [re.pɾeˈsa.lja]
• Rhymes: -alja
• Syllabification: re‧pre‧sa‧lia

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Medieval Latin reprēnsālia.

Noun

represalia f (plural represalias)

1. reprisal, retaliation

Derived terms

• represaliar

 

Etymology 2

Verb

represalia

1. inflection of represaliar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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