empecinar
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Etymology tree
From em- + pecina (“sludge”) + -ar.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /empeθiˈnaɾ/ [ẽm.pe.θiˈnaɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- IPA(key): /empesiˈnaɾ/ [ẽm.pe.siˈnaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: em‧pe‧ci‧nar
Verb
[edit]empecinar (first-person singular present empecino, first-person singular preterite empeciné, past participle empecinado)
- (transitive) to smear with mud
- (reflexive) to be stubborn, to insist
- (reflexive) to get (something) into one's head
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of empecinar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “empecinar”, 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
Categories:
- Spanish terms suffixed with -ar
- Spanish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₁én
- Spanish terms prefixed with en-
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish verbs
- Spanish verbs ending in -ar
- Spanish transitive verbs
- Spanish reflexive verbs