empatar

Borrowed from Spanish empatar, from Italian impattare.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /əm.pəˈta/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /em.paˈtaɾ/

empatar (first-person singular present empato, past participle empatat)

1. to draw, tie (not win nor lose)

• desempatar

• empat

• “empatar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “empatar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “empatar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from Spanish empatar, from Italian patta.

empatar (first-person singular present empato, first-person singular preterite empatei, past participle empatado)

1. (transitive) to cause the score of a game or match to become even
2. (intransitive) to draw (to end (a game) with neither side winning)

• empate

Borrowed from Italian impattare (“to tie, to draw”), probably from Latin pactum (“agreement, bargain, pact”), formally from the supine pactum of pacīscor (“to bargain, to contract”); not directly related to homonymous Italian impattare (“to impact”), derived via an English borrowing from the nearly homonymous supine impāctum of impingō (“to strike”).

• IPA^(key): /empaˈtaɾ/ [ẽm.paˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: em‧pa‧tar

empatar (first-person singular present empato, first-person singular preterite empaté, past participle empatado)

1. to tie, draw (to have the same score or position)
2. (Canary Islands, Latin America) to connect, join

• → Catalan: empatar

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