empeller
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Latin impellere. Compare the borrowed doublet impeler.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /empeˈʝeɾ/ [ẽm.peˈʝeɾ] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /empeˈʎeɾ/ [ẽm.peˈʎeɾ] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /empeˈʃeɾ/ [ẽm.peˈʃeɾ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /empeˈʒeɾ/ [ẽm.peˈʒeɾ] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -eɾ
- Syllabification: em‧pe‧ller
Verb
empeller (first-person singular present empello, first-person singular preterite empellí, past participle empellido)
- (transitive) to push
Conjugation
Conjugation of empeller (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Related terms
Further reading
- “empeller”, 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