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Proto-Indo-European *pel-
Old Galician-Portuguese empregar
Galician empregar
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese empregar, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin implicāre (“to entangle”). Doublet of implicar.
Rhymes: -aɾ
Hyphenation: em‧pre‧gar
empregar (first-person singular present emprego, first-person singular preterite empreguei, past participle empregado)
- to employ (to give someone a job)
Synonym: contratar - to employ; to make use of (to put into use)
Synonyms: usar, utilizar - (archaic) to put to good use (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
Conjugation of empregar (g-gu alternation)
| | Singular | Plural | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | First-person(eu) | Second-person(ti / tu) | Third-person(ele / ela / você) | First-person(nós) | Second-person(vós) | Third-person(eles / elas / vocês) | | | Infinitive | | | | | | | | Impersonal | empregar | | | | | | | Personal | empregar | empregares | empregar | empregarmos | empregardes | empregarem | | Gerund | | | | | | | | | empregando | | | | | | | | Past participle | | | | | | | | Masculine | empregado | empregados | | | | | | Feminine | empregada | empregadas | | | | | | Indicative | | | | | | | | Present | emprego | empregas | emprega | empregamos | empregades, empregais | empregam | | Imperfect | empregava | empregavas | empregava | empregávamos | empregávades, empregáveis, _empregávais_1 | empregavam | | Preterite | empreguei | empregaste, _empregache_1 | empregou | empregamos | empregastes | empregárom, empregaram | | Pluperfect | empregara | empregaras | empregara | empregáramos | empregárades, empregáreis, _empregárais_1 | empregaram | | Future | empregarei | empregarás | empregará | empregaremos | empregaredes, empregareis | empregarám, empregarão | | Conditional | empregaria | empregarias | empregaria | empregaríamos | empregaríades, empregaríeis, empregaríais1 | empregariam | | Subjunctive | | | | | | | | Present | empregue | empregues | empregue | empreguemos | empreguedes, empregueis | empreguem | | Imperfect | empregasse | empregasses | empregasse | empregássemos | empregássedes, empregásseis | empregassem | | Future | empregar | empregares | empregar | empregarmos | empregardes | empregarem | | Imperative | | | | | | | | Affirmative | | emprega | empregue | empreguemos | empregade, empregai | empreguem | | Negative (nom) | nom empregues | nom empregue | nom empreguemos | nom empreguedes, nom empregueis | nom empreguem | |
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “empregar”, 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), “empregar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Old Galician-Portuguese
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Semi-learned borrowing from Latin implicāre (“to entangle”).
empregar
- to employ; to use
Synonym: usar - 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
- 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:
Conjugation of empregar
| infinitive | empregar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | simple | empregando | |||||
| compound | gerund of haver or _tẽer_1 + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | singular | plural | |||||
| masculine | empregado | empregados | |||||
| feminine | empregada | empregadas | |||||
| present participle | empregante | empregantes | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative mood | euei | tu | el~eleela | nosnos outrosnos outras | vosvos outrosvos outras | eleselas | |
| simpletenses | present | emprego | empregas | emprega | empregamos | empregades, empregaes, empregais, empregaas, empregás | empregan |
| imperfect | empregava | empregavas | empregava | empregavamos, empregávamos | empregavades, empregávades, empregávaes, empregávais, empregávees, empregáveis | empregavan | |
| preterite | empreguei | empregaste, empregasche, empregache | empregou | empregamos | empregastes | empregaron | |
| pluperfect | empregara | empregaras | empregara | empregaramos, empregáramos | empregarades, empregárades, empregáraes, empregárais, empregárees, empregáreis | empregaran | |
| future | empregarei | empregarás | empregará | empregaremos | empregaredes, empregarees, empregareis, empregarês | empregarán | |
| conditional | empregaria | empregarias | empregaria | empregariamos, empregaríamos | empregariades, empregaríades, empregaríaes, empregaríais, empregaríees, empregaríeis | empregarian | |
| compoundtenses | present perfect | present of haver or _tẽer_1 + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect of haver or _tẽer_1 + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | preterite of haver or _tẽer_1 + past participle | ||||||
| pluperfect anterior | simple pluperfect of haver or _tẽer_1 + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of haver or _tẽer_1 + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of haver or _tẽer_1 + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive mood | euei | tu | el~eleela | nosnos outrosnos outras | vosvos outrosvos outras | eleselas | |
| simpletenses | present | empregue | empregues | empregue | empreguemos | empreguedes, empreguees, empregueis, empreguês | empreguen |
| imperfect | empregasse | empregasses | empregasse | empregassemos, empregássemos | empregassedes, empregássedes, empregássees, empregásseis | empregassen | |
| future | **empregar | empregares | **empregar | empregarmos | empregardes | empregaren | |
| compoundtenses | present perfect | present subjunctive of haver or _tẽer_1 + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of haver or _tẽer_1 + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future subjunctive of haver or _tẽer_1 + past participle | ||||||
| imperative mood | — | tu | — | nosnos outrosnos outras | vosvos outrosvos outras | — | |
| affirmative | — | emprega | — | empreguemos | empregade, empregae, empregai | — | |
| negative | — | non empregues | — | non empreguemos | non empreguedes, non empreguees, non empregueis, non empreguês | — | |
| personal infinitive | euei | tu | el~eleela | nosnos outrosnos outras | vosvos outrosvos outras | eleselas | |
| **empregar | empregares | **empregar | empregarmos | empregardes | empregaren | ||
| 1 Haver is more common than tẽer. |
- Galician: empregar
- Portuguese: empregar
- Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “empregar”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “empregar”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
- Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2026), “empregar”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
- Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “empregar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Proto-Indo-European *pel-
Old Galician-Portuguese empregar
Portuguese empregar
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese empregar, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin implicāre (“to entangle”). Doublet of implicar.
(Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/ [ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(h)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/ [ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(h)]
(Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/ [ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(h)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/ [ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(ɾ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/ [ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(χ)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/ [ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(χ)]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(ɻ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(ɻ)/
Hyphenation: em‧pre‧gar
empregar (first-person singular present emprego, first-person singular preterite empreguei, past participle empregado)
- to employ (to give someone a job)
Synonym: contratar
Antonyms: demitir, despedir, exonerar, destituir - to employ; to make use of (to put into use)
Synonyms: usar, utilizar, fazer uso, aproveitar, aplicar
A short past participle form empregue is sometimes also used in European Portuguese and informal Brazilian Portuguese, though this is considered nonstandard.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Old Galician-Portuguese en-
Portuguese en-
Portuguese em-
Old Galician-Portuguese -ar
Portuguese -ar
Portuguese empregar
From em- + prega (“fold, crease”) + -ar.
(Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/ [ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(h)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/ [ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(h)]
(Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/ [ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(h)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/ [ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(ɾ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/ [ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(χ)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/ [ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(χ)]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pɾeˈɡa(ɻ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pɾeˈɡa(ɻ)/
empregar (first-person singular present emprego, first-person singular preterite empreguei, past participle empregado)
- “empregar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “empregar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
- Galician terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Galician terms suffixed with -ar
- Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms derived from Latin
- Galician terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pel- (fold)
- Galician terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₁én
- Galician doublets
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Galician/aɾ
- Rhymes:Galician/aɾ/3 syllables
- Galician lemmas
- Galician verbs
- Galician verbs ending in -ar
- Galician verbs with g-gu alternation
- Galician terms with archaic senses
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₁én
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Galician-Portuguese semi-learned borrowings from Latin
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms borrowed from Latin
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms suffixed with -ar (verb)
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pel- (fold)
- Old Galician-Portuguese lemmas
- Old Galician-Portuguese verbs
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms with quotations
- Old Galician-Portuguese verbs ending in -ar
- Portuguese terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₁én
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Portuguese terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pel- (fold)
- Portuguese terms suffixed with -ar (verb)
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese doublets
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese verbs
- Portuguese verbs ending in -ar
- Portuguese verbs with g-gu alternation
- Portuguese terms prefixed with em-
- Beirão Portuguese
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