empalar

Inherited from Late Latin impālāre, from Latin pālus. By surface analysis, en- +‎ pal +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

empalar (first-person singular present empalo, first-person singular preterite empalí, past participle empalat)

1. to impale

• empalament

• pal

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

Borrowed from English impale, French empaler, Italian impalare, Spanish empalar.

empalar (present tense empalas, past tense empalis, future tense empalos, imperative empalez, conditional empalus)

1. (transitive) to impale, fix on a sharp stake

    Conjugation of empalar

		present		past		future
infinitive		empalar		empalir		empalor
tense		empalas		empalis		empalos
conditional		empalus
imperative		empalez
adjective active participle		empalanta		empalinta		empalonta
adverbial active participle		empalante		empalinte		empalonte
nominal active participle	singular	empalanto		empalinto		empalonto
	plural	empalanti		empalinti		empalonti
adjective passive participle		empalata		empalita		empalota
adverbial passive participle		empalate		empalite		empalote
nominal passive participle	singular	empalato		empalito		empaloto
	plural	empalati		empaliti		empaloti

• empaletar (“to impale an insect”)

Borrowed from Spanish empalar.^[1][2] Compare Catalan empalar, French empaler, Italian impalare, Romanian împăra.

• Hyphenation: em‧pa‧lar

empalar (first-person singular present empalo, first-person singular preterite empalei, past participle empalado)

1. to impale (put to death by piercing with a pale)

• empalamento

• pau

Inherited from Late Latin impālāre, from Latin pālus. By surface analysis, en- +‎ palo +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /empaˈlaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: em‧pa‧lar

empalar (first-person singular present empalo, first-person singular preterite empalé, past participle empalado)

1. to impale

• → Portuguese: empalar

• “empalar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014