empacho

From Spanish empacho.

empacho (uncountable)

1. A Hispanic folk illness ascribed to blockage of the stomach.

Attested since the 15th century. Back-formation from empachar

• empache

• IPA^(key):

empacho m (plural empachos)

1. (archaic) obstacle
   • 1457, F. R. Tato Plaza, editor, Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, notario da Terra de Rianxo e Postmarcos, Santiago: Concello da Cultura Galega, page 101:

     que nõ posesẽ en aquel logar vjdes nẽ outro enpacho

     that he shouldn't put in that place vines or another obstacle

2. empacho, indigestion

• empachar

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “enpacho”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “empacho”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “empacho”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “empacho”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

empacho

1. first-person singular present indicative of empachar

empacho

1. first-person singular present indicative of empachar

• IPA^(key): /emˈpat͡ʃo/
• Rhymes: -atʃo
• Syllabification: em‧pa‧cho

Deverbal from empachar.

empacho m (plural empachos)

1. shame, embarrassment
2. empacho

• → English: empacho
• → Cebuano: empatso
• → Hiligaynon: impatso
• → Tagalog: empatso

empacho

1. first-person singular present indicative of empachar

• “empacho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28