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From re- +‎ celar. Compare Spanish recelar and Galician and Portuguese recear.

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [rə.səˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [re.seˈlaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [re.seˈla]

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recelar (first-person singular present recelo, first-person singular preterite recelí, past participle recelat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Balearic) /ə/; (Valencia) /e/

1. (intransitive) to be suspicious or wary

• recel

• “recelar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From re + celar. Compare Catalan recelar and Galician and Portuguese recear.

• IPA^(key): /reθeˈlaɾ/ [re.θeˈlaɾ] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /reseˈlaɾ/ [re.seˈlaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: re‧ce‧lar

recelar (first-person singular present recelo, first-person singular preterite recelé, past participle recelado)

1. to suspect

   Synonym: sospechar

2. to be wary of

   Synonym: desconfiar

3. (animal husbandry) to use a teaser with a mare (to place a male horse to entice a mare to receive a stud jack (i.e. male donkey))

• “recelar”, 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