Where does “empregar” come from?

empregar (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese empregar, from Latin implicare, from Latin implico, from Latin in-, from Latin in, from Old Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

empregar (Galician): to employ; to employ; to make use of; to put to...

Definitions

  1. to employ; to employ; to make use of; to put to...

Ancestry of “empregar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Portugueseempregar
2Latinimplicarepresent active infinitive of implicō;...
3LatinimplicoI entangle, entwine; I infold, envelop, encircle;...
4Latinin-un-, non-, not; in, within, inside
5Latininin, at, on, upon, from; within, while in; into,...
6Old Latinenin
7Proto-Italicenin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “empregar

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Proto-Italic enEvery word from Latin in-