Where does “emprego” come from?
emprego (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.
emprego (Portuguese): job; use; usage; employment
Definitions
- job; use; usage; employment
Ancestry of “emprego”, step by step
emprego traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Galician empregar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
via Portuguese empregar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | empregar | to employ; to employ; to make use of |
| 2 | Portuguese | -ar | forms the impersonal infinitive of... |
| 3 | Old Portuguese | -ar | — |
| 4 | Latin | -are | present active infinitive of -ō; -āre;... |
| 5 | Latin | -o | forms masculine agent nouns, positive and... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -ōd | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -éad | — |