empecer

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese empeecer (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *impedīscere, inchoative of Latin impediō, impedīre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /empɛˈθeɾ/

Verb

empecer (first-person singular present empezo, first-person singular preterite empecín, past participle empecido)
empecer (first-person singular present empeço, first-person singular preterite empecim or empeci, past participle empecido, reintegrationist norm)

1. (now literary) to impede
2. (now literary) to harm
   • 1486, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 193:

     Onde for borado non enpeça

     It should not maim wherever it is smudged

Conjugation

References

• “empecer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “enpee” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “empecer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “empecer”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “empecer” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “empecer” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “empecer” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese empeecer, from Vulgar Latin *impedīscere, inchoative of Latin impedīre. Compare Galician and Spanish empecer

Pronunciation

Verb

empecer (first-person singular present empeço, first-person singular preterite empeci, past participle empecido)

1. (transitive) to harm; to prejudice
2. (transitive, intransitive) to prevent; to impede

Conjugation

Related terms

• empecilho
• impedir

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *impediscere, from Latin impedīre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /empeˈθeɾ/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /empeˈseɾ/
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: em‧pe‧cer

Verb

empecer (third-person only, third-person singular present empece, third-person singular preterite empeció, past participle empecido)

1. (obsolete, transitive) to harm, maim
2. (transitive, intransitive) to impede, hinder

Conjugation

Related terms

Further reading

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