empacar

== Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: em‧pa‧car === Verb === empacar (first-person singular present empaco, first-person singular preterite empaquei, past participle empacado) to jib (to stop and refuse to proceed) (figurative) to stop growing or improving ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “empacar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “empacar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === From em- +‎ paca (“package; bundle”) +‎ -ar. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /empaˈkaɾ/ [ẽm.paˈkaɾ] Rhymes: -aɾ Syllabification: em‧pa‧car === Verb === empacar (first-person singular present empaco, first-person singular preterite empaqué, past participle empacado) (transitive) to pack, pack away, pack up ¿Quiere empacar el resto para llevar? ― Do you want to pack the rest to go? (Colombia, transitive) to anger (Argentina, Lunfardo) to get together (Argentina, Lunfardo) to save money (Argentina, Lunfardo) to deceive or fool in order to get something belonging to another (reflexive) to pack up ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “empacar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025