empresa

• IPA^(key): /emˈpɾesa/ [ẽmˈpɾe.sa]
• Rhymes: -esa
• Syllabification: em‧pre‧sa

empresa f (plural empreses)

1. business; firm; enterprise

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əmˈpɾɛ.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əmˈpɾə.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [emˈpɾe.za]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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empresa f (plural empreses)

1. enterprise, undertaking
2. company, business

• emprendre

empresa f sg

1. feminine singular of emprès

• “empresa”, 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
• “empresa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

Borrowed from Italian impresa.

• emprêsa (pre-reform spelling)
• empreza (pre-standardization spelling)

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Rhymes: -ezɐ
• Hyphenation: em‧pre‧sa

empresa f (plural empresas)

1. company; business

   Synonym: companhia

2. enterprise

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• empreza (pre-standardization spelling)

empresa

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

• “empresa”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “empresa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Italian impresa.

• IPA^(key): /emˈpɾesa/ [ẽmˈpɾe.sa]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -esa
• Syllabification: em‧pre‧sa

empresa f (plural empresas)

1. company

   Synonyms: compañía, firma

2. enterprise, undertaking

   Synonym: emprendimiento

3. task

   Synonyms: deber, tarea, quehacer, cometido

• “empresa”, 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