emprestar

em- +‎ prestar.

emprestar

1. to lend, loan

From Old Galician-Portuguese emprestar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from en- +‎ prestar (“to lend”).

• IPA^(key): /empɾesˈtaɾ/

emprestar (first-person singular present empresto, first-person singular preterite emprestei, past participle emprestado)

1. to lend

   Synonyms: deixar, prestar

   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 196:

     Et ante doze dias que chegase a Santiago hũu rromeu que jazia doente ẽno camino, rrogou a aquel caualeiro que lle enprestase o caualo en que podese yr a Santiago, ca en outra maneira morreria ca nõ podia andar.

     and twelve days before arriving to Santiago a pilgrim, who was lying sick in the way, begged that knight to lend him his horse to go to Santiago, because otherwise he would die because he couldn't walk

• prestar

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

From em- +‎ prestar.

emprestar (first-person singular present empresto, first-person singular preterite emprestei, past participle emprestado)

2. (transitive) to lend; to loan (to give temporarily) [with direct object ‘something’, along with a or para or indirect object pronoun ‘to someone’]
   • 1981, Janusz Korczak, Quando eu voltar a ser criança, Editorial Summus, page 93:

     Emprestei para uma porção de gente, mas ninguém me devolve.

     I have loaned to a bunch of people, but nobody pays me back.

   • 2013, Taís Holetz, Páginas de tempestade, FAEST Editora, page 46:

     Espero alguém que me empreste seu casaco em dia de chuva.

     I’m waiting for someone who lends me their coat in a rainy day.

4. (Brazil, transitive) to borrow (to obtain temporarily)

   Synonym: pegar emprestado

   • 2007, Hélio Pires, O Diário do S.U.S.to, Clube de Autores, page 70:

     Eu tenho urgência da carteira e emprestei do meu amigo, […]

     I need the wallet urgently and I borrowed from my friend, […]

From em- +‎ prestar. Compare Portuguese emprestar, Italian imprestare, Sicilian mpristari.

• IPA^(key): /empɾesˈtaɾ/ [ẽm.pɾesˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: em‧pres‧tar

emprestar (first-person singular present empresto, first-person singular preterite empresté, past participle emprestado)

1. (transitive, Latin America) to lend

• “emprestar”, 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