empalar

Inherited from Late Latin impālāre, from Latin pālus. By surface analysis, en- +‎ pal +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əm.pəˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [em.paˈlaɾ]

empalar (first-person singular present empalo, first-person singular preterite empalí, past participle empalat)

1. to impale

• empalament

• pal

• “empalar”, 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
• “empalar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “empalar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “empalar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from English impale, French empaler, Italian impalare, Spanish empalar.

empalar (present tense empalas, past tense empalis, future tense empalos, imperative empalez, conditional empalus)

1. (transitive) to impale, fix on a sharp stake

• empaletar (“to impale an insect”)

Borrowed from Spanish empalar.^[1][2] Compare Catalan empalar, French empaler, Italian impalare, Romanian împăra.

• Hyphenation: em‧pa‧lar

empalar (first-person singular present empalo, first-person singular preterite empalei, past participle empalado)

1. to impale (put to death by piercing with a pale)

• empalamento

• pau

Inherited from Late Latin impālāre, from Latin pālus. By surface analysis, en- +‎ palo +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /empaˈlaɾ/ [ẽm.paˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: em‧pa‧lar

empalar (first-person singular present empalo, first-person singular preterite empalé, past participle empalado)

1. to impale

• → Portuguese: empalar

• “empalar”, 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