empreñar

• emprenhar (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese emprennar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin impraegnāre. Doublet of impregnar.

• IPA^(key): /empɾeˈɲaɾ/ [em.pɾeˈɲaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: em‧pre‧ñar

empreñar (first-person singular present empreño, first-person singular preterite empreñei, past participle empreñado)

1. (transitive) to impregnate (to cause to become pregnant)

   Synonym: preñar

2. (intransitive) to become pregnant

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “emprennar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “enpren”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “empreñar”, 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), “empreñar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “empreñar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “empreñar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Inherited from Late Latin impraegnāre. Doublet of impregnar.

• IPA^(key): /empɾeˈɲaɾ/ [ẽm.pɾeˈɲaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: em‧pre‧ñar

empreñar (first-person singular present empreño, first-person singular preterite empreñé, past participle empreñado)

1. (transitive) to impregnate (to cause to become pregnant)

   Synonym: preñar

2. (colloquial, transitive) to vex, to annoy
3. (archaic, transitive) to impregnate (to fill pores or spaces with a substance)

   Synonym: impregnar

• “empreñar”, 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