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Where does “empregado” come from?

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

empregado (Portuguese): employed; employee

Definitions

  1. employed; employee

Ancestry of “empregado”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Galicianempregarto employ; to employ; to make use of; to put to...
2Old Portugueseempregar—
3Latinimplicarepresent active infinitive of implicō;...
4LatinimplicoI entangle, entwine; I infold, envelop, encircle;...
5Latinin-un-, non-, not; in, within, inside
6Latininin, at, on, upon, from; within, while in; into,...
7Old Latinenin
8Proto-Italicenin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “empregado”

  • desempregado
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →