empatar

Borrowed from Spanish empatar, from Italian impattare.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əm.pəˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [em.paˈtaɾ]

empatar (first-person singular present empato, first-person singular preterite empatí, past participle empatat)

1. to draw, tie (not win nor lose)

• desempatar

• empat

• “empatar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “empatar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “empatar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from Spanish empatar, from Italian impattare, from Italian patta (“a tie”).

• Hyphenation: em‧pa‧tar

empatar (first-person singular present empato, first-person singular preterite empatei, past participle empatado)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to draw, to tie (to have the same result in a competition or voting)
2. (finance, transitive, intransitive) to tie up (to immobilize a capital)
3. (transitive) to hinder, to stalemate
4. (transitive) to occupy one's time
5. (Brazil, transitive) to annoy

• “empatar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “empatar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024

Borrowed from Italian impattare (“to tie, to draw”), probably from Latin pactum (“agreement, bargain, pact”), formally from the supine pactum of pacīscor (“to bargain, to contract”); not directly related to homonymous Italian impattare (“to impact”), derived via an English borrowing from the nearly homonymous supine impāctum of impingō (“to strike”).

• IPA^(key): /empaˈtaɾ/ [ẽm.paˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: em‧pa‧tar

empatar (first-person singular present empato, first-person singular preterite empaté, past participle empatado)

1. to tie, draw (to have the same score or position)
2. (Canary Islands, Latin America) to connect, join

• → Catalan: empatar

• “empatar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28