empregar

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese empregar, from Latin implicāre, present active infinitive of implicō (“I entangle”). Doublet of implicar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /empɾeˈɣaɾ/

Verb

empregar (first-person singular present emprego, first-person singular preterite empreguei, past participle empregado)

1. to employ (to give someone a job)

   Synonym: contratar

2. to employ; to make use of (to put into use)

   Synonyms: usar, utilizar

3. (archaic) to put to good use
   • 1470, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 362:

     tódolos outros diseron juntamente que esteueram no arroydo e que uiran matar ao irmao de Gonçaluo Roíz e seu cunhado e outros pyós e que uiram tyrar a Fernán de Sam Payo, e dyserom que ele fezera muytas fyrydas e matara ó dito Gonçaluo Roz, e que ouuera muitos dynheyros dos ditos fynados, e mais diseron que se gauaba que de XX tyros que tyrara que todos empregara, saluo dous

     all the rest said altogether that they were at the riot and that they saw how Gonzalvo Rois' brother, and his brother-in-law, and other pawns, were killed; and that they saw Fernán de Sampaio shooting; and they said that he caused many wounds and that he killed the aforementioned Gonzalvo Rois, and that he took many moneys from the dead; and they added that he was boasting that of twenty shots he had thrown, all but two were put to good use

Conjugation

Related terms

• empregado
• empregador
• emprego
• implicar

References

• “empregar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “empreg” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “empregar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “empregar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese empregar, from Latin implicāre (“to entangle”). Doublet of implicar.

Pronunciation

Verb

empregar (first-person singular present emprego, first-person singular preterite empreguei, past participle empregado)

1. to employ (to give someone a job)

   Synonym: contratar

   Antonyms: demitir, despedir, exonerar, destituir

2. to employ; to make use of (to put into use)

   Synonyms: usar, utilizar, fazer uso, aproveitar, aplicar

Usage notes

• A short past participle form empregue is sometimes also used in European Portuguese and informal Brazilian Portuguese, though this is considered nonstandard.

Conjugation

Related terms

• empregado
• empregador
• emprego
• empreguismo
• implicar

Etymology 2

From em- +‎ prega (“fold, crease”) +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

Verb

empregar (first-person singular present emprego, first-person singular preterite empreguei, past participle empregado)

1. to fold, to pleat
2. (regional, Beira) to become paralyzed

Conjugation