# empatar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish empatar, from Italian impattare.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [əm.pəˈta]
* IPA: (Valencia) [em.paˈtaɾ]

### Verb

empatar (first-person singular present empato, first-person singular preterite empatí, past participle empatat)
* to draw, tie (not win nor lose)

#### Derived terms

* desempatar

#### Related terms

* empat

### Further reading

* “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, 2025
* “empatar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish empatar, from Italian impattare, from Italian patta (“a tie”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.paˈta(ʁ)/ [ẽ.paˈta(h)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.paˈta(ʁ)/ [ĩ.paˈta(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.paˈta(ʁ)/ [ẽ.paˈta(h)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.paˈta(ʁ)/ [ĩ.paˈta(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.paˈta(ɾ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.paˈta(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.paˈta(ʁ)/ [ẽ.paˈta(χ)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.paˈta(ʁ)/ [ĩ.paˈta(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.paˈta(ɻ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.paˈta(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ẽ.pɐˈtaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ẽ.pɐˈtaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ẽ.pɐˈta.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: em‧pa‧tar

### Verb

empatar (first-person singular present empato, first-person singular preterite empatei, past participle empatado)
* (transitive, intransitive) to draw, to tie (to have the same result in a competition or voting)
* (finance, transitive, intransitive) to tie up (to immobilize a capital)
* (transitive) to hinder, to stalemate
* (transitive) to occupy one's time
* (Brazil, transitive) to annoy

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Derived terms

* desempatar
* empata
* empata-amigos
* empata-foda
* empata-vazas
* empatador
* empate

### Further reading

* “empatar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “empatar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

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”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /empaˈtaɾ/ [ẽm.paˈt̪aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: em‧pa‧tar

### Verb

empatar (first-person singular present empato, first-person singular preterite empaté, past participle empatado)
* to tie, draw (to have the same score or position)
* (Canary Islands, Latin America) to connect, join

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Related terms

* empate
* pata

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: empatar

### Further reading

* “empatar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10