empatar

Borrowed from Spanish empatar, from Italian impattare.

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

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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, 2026
• “empatar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

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. (ambitransitive) to draw, to tie (to have the same result in a competition or voting)
2. (finance, ambitransitive) 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 Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “empatar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “empatar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “empatar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025