empachar

Attested since 1459 (its derived term empacho since 1457). Borrowed from Old French empeechier, from Latin impedicāre, present active infinitive of impedicō (“I fetter”).

• IPA^(key): /empaˈt͡ʃaɾ/

empachar (first-person singular present empacho, first-person singular preterite empachei, past participle empachado)

1. to obstruct; to entangle; to stuff; to impede
   • 1459, A. López Carreira (ed.), Fragmentos de notarios, doc. 171:

     o qual o dito Ares diso que avia demandado o dito foro ao dito Gonçalvo Magosto et llo enpachava o dito Gonçalvo Magosto

     the aforementioned Ares said that he had demanded said contract from said Gonzalo Magosto and said Gonzalo Magosto was preventing him from it

   • c1596, anonymous, Diálogo de Alberte e Bieito:

     De soldados os camiños enpachados, furtando carros e bestas, queimando caniços e zestas

     Of soldiers the roads are stuffed, stealing carts and mares, burning wattles and baskets

2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to overeat

• empacho (“obstacle”)

• “enpachar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “enpach” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “empachar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “empachar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “empachar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from Old French empeechier, from Latin impedicāre, present active infinitive of impedicō (“I fetter”).

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empachar

1. to prevent; to inhibit

• empedegar

• → Catalan: empatxar

Borrowed from Old French empeechier, from Latin impedicāre (“to fetter”).

empachar (first-person singular present empacho, first-person singular preterite empachei, past participle empachado)

1. to obstruct

   Synonyms: obstruir, impedir, obturar, tapar

   Antonyms: desobstruir, desimpedir

2. to overeat

   Synonym: empanturrar

• empachado
• empachamento
• empacho

Borrowed from Old French empeechier, from Latin impedicāre, present active infinitive of impedicō (“to fetter”).

• IPA^(key): /empaˈt͡ʃaɾ/ [ẽm.paˈt͡ʃaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: em‧pa‧char

empachar (first-person singular present empacho, first-person singular preterite empaché, past participle empachado)

1. to obstruct
2. (colloquial, reflexive) to pig out, to stuff oneself (with food)

• “empachar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014