emprendre

• mamprendre (Valencia)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *imprehendere, from Latin prehendere.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əmˈpɛn.dɾə], (proscribed spelling pronunciation) [əmˈpɾɛn.dɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əmˈpən.dɾə], (proscribed spelling pronunciation) [əmˈpɾən.dɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [emˈpen.dɾe], (proscribed spelling pronunciation) [emˈpɾen.dɾe]

emprendre (first-person singular present emprenc, first-person singular preterite emprenguí, past participle emprès); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/(transitive)

1. to undertake

   Synonym: escometre

2. to initiate, to enter into, to embark upon

   Synonyms: iniciar, començar

• emprenedor
• empresa

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

• “emprendre”, 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

• anprendre, emprandre, enprendre, enpanrre

From Vulgar Latin *imprehendere, from Latin prehendere.

• (archaic) IPA^(key): /emˈpɾendɾə/
• (classical) IPA^(key): /amˈpɾandɾə/

emprendre

1. to undertake (take up a task, a duty, etc.)
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Se tu as anprise bataille

     If you have taken up a battle

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Middle French: emprendre