encomendar

• comendar (dated)

From en- +‎ Old Galician-Portuguese comendar, from Latin commendāre. Compare comandar, a doublet borrowed from French.

• Hyphenation: en‧co‧men‧dar

encomendar (first-person singular present encomendo, first-person singular preterite encomendei, past participle encomendado)

1. (transitive) to order; to instruct
2. (transitive) to commission
3. (transitive) to recommend
4. (pronominal) to commend oneself; to entrust oneself

• encomenda

Inherited from Old Spanish en- +‎ comendar, from Latin commendāre. Compare comandar, a doublet borrowed from Italian or French.

• IPA^(key): /enkomenˈdaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: en‧co‧men‧dar

encomendar (first-person singular present encomiendo, first-person singular preterite encomendé, past participle encomendado)

1. to entrust

   Encomendó la organización del evento a su asistente.

   She entrusted the organisation of the event to her assistant.

   • 1602 — La Santa Biblia (antigua versión de Casiodoro de Reina), rev., Los Hechos 15:40

     Y Pablo escogiendo á Silas, partió encomendado de los hermanos á la gracia del Señor.

   • 1992, Anjel Rekalde, Dorregarai: la casa torre:

     llevaba a término las misiones que le encomendaban

     I fulfilled the missions I was entrusted

• “encomendar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 10 December 2024