empeña

See also: empena and empeñá

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /emˈpeɲa/ [emˈpe.ɲɐ]
  • Rhymes: -eɲa
  • Hyphenation: em‧pe‧ña

Noun

empeña f (plural empeñas)

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

References

  1. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “empeine II”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Further reading

Spanish

Verb

empeña

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