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
Ancestry of “empregado”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Galician | empregar | to employ; to employ; to make use of; to put to... |
| 2 | Old Portuguese | empregar | — |
| 3 | Latin | implicare | present active infinitive of implicō;... |
| 4 | Latin | implico | I entangle, entwine; I infold, envelop, encircle;... |
| 5 | Latin | in- | un-, non-, not; in, within, inside |
| 6 | Latin | in | in, at, on, upon, from; within, while in; into,... |
| 7 | Old Latin | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “empregado”