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empatar

empatar

Catalan

Verb

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

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from Spanish empatar, from Italian patta.

Verb

empatar (first-person singular present indicative empato, 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)

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Verb

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

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