emplazar

From em- +‎ plaza +‎ -ar. Cognate to English emplace, French emplacer, Portuguese emplaçar, Catalan emplaçar & Italian impiazzare.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /emplaˈθaɾ/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /emplaˈsaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: em‧pla‧zar

emplazar (first-person singular present emplazo, first-person singular preterite emplacé, past participle emplazado)

1. (transitive) to put (in its place)
2. (transitive) to set a deadline
3. (transitive, catenative) to call on, to request
   • 2023 August 8, Marc Rovira, “ERC y Junts se emplazan a aparcar sus diferencias ante la “oportunidad histórica” de decantar la investidura”, in El País‎:

     La secretaria general adjunta y portavoz de ERC, Marta Vilalta, ha emplazado a JxCat a “aparcar los reproches” entre independentistas y buscar “puntos de acuerdo”.

     ERC's deputy general secretary and spokesperson Marta Vilalta has called on JxCat “to set aside the reproaches” among independentists and look for “points of agreement”.

4. (transitive, law) to summon

   emplazar a un testigo

   summon a witness

• “emplazar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10