empertigar

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From en- + obsolete pértiga (“stick, staff, measuring stick”) + -ar. Portuguese pértiga is a semi-learned borrowing from Latin pertica (“staff, measuring rod”). === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: em‧per‧ti‧gar === Verb === empertigar (first-person singular present empertigo, first-person singular preterite empertiguei, past participle empertigado) to stiffen ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “empertigar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “empertigar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026