empedrar

From em- +‎ pedra (“stone”) +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əm.pəˈðɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [em.peˈðɾaɾ]
• Homophone: empedrà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

empedrar (first-person singular present empedro, first-person singular preterite empedrí, past participle empedrat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /e/

1. (transitive) to pave

From en- +‎ pedra.

• IPA^(key): /empeˈðɾaɾ/

empedrar (first-person singular present empedro, first-person singular preterite empedrei, past participle empedrado)

1. to pave
2. (archaic, law) to impound, shut up a building

• pedra

• “enpedr” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “empedrar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “empedrar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “empedrar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “empedrar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From em- +‎ piedra (“stone”) +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /empeˈdɾaɾ/ [ẽm.peˈð̞ɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: em‧pe‧drar

empedrar (first-person singular present empiedro, first-person singular preterite empedré, past participle empedrado)

1. (transitive) to pave

   empedrar o cubrir con piedras ― to pave or to cover with stones

2. (figuratively, transitive) to strew, scatter

   empedrar de citas ― to strew with quotations

• adoquinar
• pavimentar

• “empedrar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014