empatar

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Verb

empatar (first-person singular present empato, first-person singular preterite empatí, past participle empatat)

1. to draw, tie (not win nor lose)

Related terms

• empat

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish empatar, from Italian patta.

Verb

1. (transitive) to cause the score of a game or match to become even
2. (intransitive) to draw (to end (a game) with neither side winning)

Derived terms

• empate

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian impattare (“to tie, draw”), probably from Latin pactum (“agreement, bargain, pact”), formally from the supine pactum of paciscor (“I bargain, contract”); not directly related to homonymous (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian impattare (“to impact”), derived via an English borrowing from the nearly homonymous supine impāctum of impingō (“I strike”).

Verb

1. to tie, draw (to have the same score or position)
2. (Canary Islands, Latin America) to connect, join

Related terms

• empate
• pata