embocar

From en- +‎ boca +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əm.buˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əm.boˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [em.boˈkaɾ]

embocar (first-person singular present emboco, first-person singular preterite emboquí, past participle embocat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /o/

1. (intransitive) to debouch, to empty [with a ‘into’]

   Synonym: desembocar

2. (transitive) to mouth, to put in one's mouth
3. (transitive, figurative) to wolf down, to gulp down
4. (transitive, nautical) to enter

• “embocar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From en- +‎ boca +‎ -ar, or possibly corresponding to a Vulgar Latin *imbuccāre, from Latin bucca (compare French emboucher, Italian imboccare, Romanian îmbuca).

• IPA^(key): /emboˈkaɾ/ [ẽm.boˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: em‧bo‧car

embocar (first-person singular present emboco, first-person singular preterite emboqué, past participle embocado)

1. to put in one's mouth
2. to put in a hole
3. (sports) to sink, to pot

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