empedrar

From em- +‎ pedra (“stone”) +‎ -ar.

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

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• Homophone: empedrà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

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

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “enpedr”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “empedrar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “empedrar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “empedrar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “empedrar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From em- +‎ pedra (“stone”) +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: em‧pe‧drar

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

1. (transitive) to pave
2. (transitive, reflexive) to harden, to turn into stone

• “empedrar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025