gastar

See also: gas tar

Catalan

Verb

gastar (first-person singular present gasto, first-person singular preterite gastí, past participle gastat)

1. to spend, consume

   Synonyms: despendre, consumir

Further reading

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

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Galician

Etymology 1

13th century. From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese gastar, from Latin vastāre under the influence of the descendants of Proto-Germanic *wōstijaz (“waste”). Compare Portuguese gastar, Spanish gastar, Italian guastare (“to spoil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡasˈtaɾ/

Verb

1. (transitive) to spend
2. (transitive) to expend
3. (transitive) to wear, wear out (deteriorate by using)
4. (transitive) to consume, use up (energy, water etc.)
5. (transitive) to use
6. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to wear out (deteriorate by using)

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kastô (“box”); compare the derived form engastar.

Verb

1. (archaic) to carve
   • 1434, Anselmo López Carreira (ed.), Libro de Notas de Álvaro Afonso (1434), Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, d. 169:

     que collades et diedes colleytas enno monte das Trees çen varas de pedras de duellas, as quaes avedes de dar gastadas et que aja en cada vara de pedra quatro palmos de longo medidos por el vendre ventre dela duella

     [During the construction of the bridge of Ourense] you should pick and give a hundred yards of stone staves, which you should deliver carved; each yard of stone must measure four handspans, as measured by the belly of the stave

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• “gastar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “gastar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin vastāre. Compare Spanish gastar, Italian guastare (“to spoil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡas.ˈta(ʁ)/

Verb

1. to spend
2. to expend

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin vastāre, present active infinitive of vastō, influenced by Frankish *wuastijan, *wōstēn, *wōstijan < Proto-Germanic *wōstijaną. Compare Italian guastare (“to spoil”) and English waste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡasˈtaɾ/ [ɡasˈt̪aɾ]

Verb

1. (transitive, reflexive) to spend (money, time, resources)
2. (transitive, reflexive) to wear, wear out (deteriorate by using)
3. (transitive) to use up, to expend, to consume (energy, water etc.)
4. (transitive) to play (jokes)
5. (transitive) to have or wear
6. (transitive) to waste (e.g. gas, money, energy, one's breath)

Synonyms

• (wear out): desgastar
• (waste): malgastar
• (have): llevar, tener

Related terms

• gastable
• gasto
• gastón
• gastado
• gastoso
• gastador
• desgastar
• malgastar
• sobregastar
• regastar
• gastito
• gastazo

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Swedish

Noun

gastar

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of gast

Verb

gastar

1. (deprecated template usage) present tense of gasta.

Anagrams

• argast