encomendar

• comendar (dated)

From en- +‎ Old Galician-Portuguese comendar, from Latin commendāre. Compare comandar, a doublet borrowed from French.

• Hyphenation: en‧co‧men‧dar

encomendar (first-person singular present encomendo, first-person singular preterite encomendei, past participle encomendado)

1. (transitive) to order; to instruct
2. (transitive) to commission
3. (transitive) to recommend
4. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to commend oneself; to entrust oneself

• encomenda

From Old Spanish en- +‎ comendar, from Latin commendāre, present active infinitive of commendō. Compare comandar, a doublet borrowed from Italian or French.

• IPA^(key): /enkomenˈdaɾ/ [ẽŋ.ko.mẽn̪ˈd̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: en‧co‧men‧dar

encomendar (first-person singular present encomiendo, first-person singular preterite encomendé, past participle encomendado)

1. to entrust

   Encomendó la organización del evento a su asistente.

   She entrusted the organisation of the event to her assistant.

   • 1602 — La Santa Biblia (antigua versión de Casiodoro de Reina), rev., Los Hechos 15:40

     Y Pablo escogiendo á Silas, partió encomendado de los hermanos á la gracia del Señor.

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