empate

See also: empaté, empâté, and empâte

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful) /ẽˈpa.t͡ʃi/, /ĩˈpa.t͡ʃi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ẽˈpa.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: em‧pa‧te

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Italian im-

French pattebor.

Italian patta

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Italian -are

Italian impattarebor.

Spanish empatarbor.

Portuguese empatardeverb.

Portuguese empate

Deverbal from empatar.

Noun

empate m (plural empates)

1. draw; tie (situation in which the participants of a competition have equal scores)

Etymology 2

Verb

empate

1. inflection of empatar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /emˈpate/ [ẽmˈpa.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: em‧pa‧te

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Italian im-

French pattebor.

Italian patta

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Italian -are

Italian impattarebor.

Spanish empatardeverb.

Spanish empate

Deverbal from empatar.

Noun

empate m (plural empates)

1. draw, tie

   un triple empate ― a three-way tie

2. dead heat
3. standoff

Derived terms

• desempate

Etymology 2

Verb

empate

1. inflection of empatar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “empate”, 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