empeña

See also: empena and empeñá

Galician

Etymology

Cognate with Portuguese empenha, Spanish empeine and French empeigne. Perhaps ultimately from Latin pecten (comb).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [emˈpeɲɐ]

Noun

empeña f (plural empeñas)

  1. (anatomy) instep
  2. vamp of a shoe; upper

References

  1. Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “empeine II”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Spanish

Verb

empeña

  1. inflection of empeñar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
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