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emplear

emplear

Ladino

Verb

emplear (Latin spelling)

  1. to use
  2. to go shopping

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from Old French empleiier, variant of emploiier (compare modern French employer), from Latin implicāre, present active infinitive of implicāre. Doublet of implicar, borrowed directly from Latin. Cf. also the Old Spanish form emplegar, which may have been inherited; compare the surviving Asturian emplegar.[1]

Verb

emplear (first-person singular present empleo, first-person singular preterite empleé, past participle empleado)

  1. to hire
  2. to use

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References

  1. https://www.scribd.com/doc/157209215/Diccionario-Critico-Etimologico-castellano-C-F-Corominas-Joan-pdf