retrotraer
Spanish, verb/retɾotɾaˈeɾ/
retrotraer is a Spanish verb meaning “to take back (to a bygone era)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Fingir que una cosa sucedió en un tiempo anterior a aquel en que realmente ocurrió, ficción que se admite en…”.
What does retrotraer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to take back (to a bygone era)
- 2
to hark back (figuratively)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Fingir que una cosa sucedió en un tiempo anterior a aquel en que realmente ocurrió, ficción que se admite en ciertos casos para varios efectos legales. 2. Remitirse a un hecho pasado para tomarlo como marco de referencia dentro de un discurso. 3. Dicho de una norma jurídica: atribuirle carácter retroactivo. 4. Revertir el veredicto de un juicio para poder analizar el caso con mayor diligencia o para corregir irregularidades cometidas.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of retrotraer
- retrotraigo first-person present singular
- retrotraje first-person preterite singular
- retrotraído participle past
- retrotrayendo gerund
- retrotraída feminine participle past
- retrotraídos masculine participle past
- retrotraídas feminine participle past
- retrotraes indicative informal present
- retrotraés indicative informal present
- retrotrae indicative present singular
- retrotraemos first-person indicative plural
- retrotraéis indicative plural present
- retrotraen indicative plural present
- retrotraía first-person imperfect indicative
- retrotraías imperfect indicative second-person
- retrotraíamos first-person imperfect indicative
- retrotraíais imperfect indicative plural
- retrotraían imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce retrotraer?
- /retɾotɾaˈeɾ/
- [re.t̪ɾo.t̪ɾaˈeɾ]
- [ret̪ɾot̪ɾaˈeɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to retrotraer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is retrotraer in Spanish?
retrotraer appears about once in every 7 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).