empatar

Borrowed from Spanish empatar, from Italian impattare.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əm.pəˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [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 patta.

• 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. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “empatar” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.

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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014