despotricar

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁

Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-

Proto-Italic *dis-

Latin dis-

Old Spanish des-

Spanish des-

Spanish potro

Spanish despotricar

From des- + potro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /despotɾiˈkaɾ/ [d̪es.po.t̪ɾiˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: des‧po‧tri‧car

Verb

despotricar (first-person singular present despotrico, first-person singular preterite despotriqué, past participle despotricado)

1. (colloquial) to rant, to sound off

Conjugation

    Conjugation of despotricar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			despotricar
gerund			despotricando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		despotricado		despotricada
		plural		despotricados		despotricadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	despotrico	despotricastú despotricásvos	despotrica	despotricamos	despotricáis	despotrican
	imperfect	despotricaba	despotricabas	despotricaba	despotricábamos	despotricabais	despotricaban
	preterite	despotriqué	despotricaste	despotricó	despotricamos	despotricasteis	despotricaron
	future	despotricaré	despotricarás	despotricará	despotricaremos	despotricaréis	despotricarán
	conditional	despotricaría	despotricarías	despotricaría	despotricaríamos	despotricaríais	despotricarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	despotrique	despotriquestú despotriquésvos2	despotrique	despotriquemos	despotriquéis	despotriquen
	imperfect (ra)	despotricara	despotricaras	despotricara	despotricáramos	despotricarais	despotricaran
	imperfect (se)	despotricase	despotricases	despotricase	despotricásemos	despotricaseis	despotricasen
	future1	despotricare	despotricares	despotricare	despotricáremos	despotricareis	despotricaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		despotricatú despotricávos	despotrique	despotriquemos	despotricad	despotriquen
	negative		no despotriques	no despotrique	no despotriquemos	no despotriquéis	no despotriquen

¹Rare; now chiefly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tuteo-form for the present subjunctive.

Further reading

• “despotricar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025