rescat

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish rescate.

Noun

rescat

1. (obsolete) ransom; release

Verb

rescat

1. (obsolete) ransom; release

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rescat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• racest, caster, Cestar, Caters, recast, creats, Caster, carest, crates, Cartes, acters, carets, cartes, reäcts, caters, reacts, traces, Tresca

Catalan

Etymology

Deverbal from rescatar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [rəsˈkat]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [resˈkat]

Noun

rescat m (plural rescats)

1. rescue
2. ransom

Further reading

• “rescat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “rescat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “rescat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “rescat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.