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Galician
Etymology
Cognate with Portuguese empenha, Spanish empeine and French empeigne. Perhaps ultimately from Latin pecten (“comb”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
empeña f (plural empeñas)
- (anatomy) instep
- vamp of a shoe; upper
References
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “empeña”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (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), “empeña”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “empeña”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Spanish
Verb
empeña
- inflection of empeñar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative