empaque
See also: empaqué
Portuguese
Verb
empaque
- inflection of empacar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /emˈpake/ [ẽmˈpa.ke]
- Rhymes: -ake
- Syllabification: em‧pa‧que
Etymology 1
Deverbal from empacar.
Noun
empaque m (plural empaques)
- packaging
- (colloquial) presence; look
- Synonym: catadura
- (figurative) integrity
- 2020 December 11, Josep Ramoneda, “De Trump a Ayuso”, in El País[1]:
- Ayuso y los demás, esta es la estrategia. ¿Tendrá empaque suficiente para aguantar o se la llevará el viento? ¿Arrastrará al partido o será arrastrada por él?
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Etymology 2
Verb
empaque
- inflection of empacar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “empaque”, 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