empuxar

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese empuxar / enpuxar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin impulsāre, from in- +‎ pulsāre, or a frequentative of impellere. Doublet of impulsar, a learned borrowing. Cognate with Portuguese empuxar, Spanish empujar.

• IPA^(key): /empuˈʃaɾ/ [em.puˈʃaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ

empuxar (first-person singular present empuxo, first-person singular preterite empuxei, past participle empuxado)

1. to push

   Synonym: empurrar

2. (archaic) to repel, drive, force back

   Synonyms: repeler, rexeitar

3. to expel

   Synonym: botar

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “enpuxar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “enpux”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “empuxar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “empuxar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “empuxar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese empuxar / enpuxar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin impulsāre, from in- +‎ pulsāre, or a frequentative of impellere. Doublet of impulsar, a learned borrowing, and possibly of empurrar. Cognate with Galician empuxar, Spanish empujar.

• Hyphenation: em‧pu‧xar

empuxar (first-person singular present empuxo, first-person singular preterite empuxei, past participle empuxado)

1. to push, to impel
2. to yank towards oneself, to pull forcefully
3. to shake vigorously
4. (figurative) to induce (an action, behavior, etc.)

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