encarregar

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *incarricāre. By surface analysis, en- +‎ carregar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əŋ.kə.rəˈɣa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [eŋ.ka.reˈɣaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

encarregar (first-person singular present encarrego, first-person singular preterite encarreguí, past participle encarregat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. to instruct
2. to charge, put in charge
3. (reflexive) to take over

• encàrrec

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

• encargar

From Vulgar Latin *incarricāre. By surface analysis, en- +‎ carregar. Compare Spanish encargar.

• Hyphenation: en‧car‧re‧gar

encarregar (first-person singular present encarrego, first-person singular preterite encarreguei, past participle encarregado)

1. to charge
2. to instruct

A short past participle form encarregue is sometimes also used in European Portuguese, though this is considered nonstandard.