empobrecer

== Portuguese == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese emprobecer. By surface analysis, em- +‎ pobre +‎ -ecer. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: em‧po‧bre‧cer === Verb === empobrecer (first-person singular present empobreço, first-person singular preterite empobreci, past participle empobrecido) (transitive) to impoverish (to make poor) (intransitive) to impoverish (to become poor) ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “empobrecer”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “empobrecer”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === From en- +‎ Late Latin pauperāscere, probably through an unattested variant *pauperēscō. Alternatively through an archaic *pobrecer, from the same source. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /empobɾeˈθeɾ/ [ẽm.po.β̞ɾeˈθeɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain) IPA(key): /empobɾeˈseɾ/ [ẽm.po.β̞ɾeˈseɾ] (Latin America, Philippines) Rhymes: -eɾ Syllabification: em‧po‧bre‧cer === Verb === empobrecer (first-person singular present empobrezco, first-person singular preterite empobrecí, past participle empobrecido) (transitive) to impoverish, make poor, break financially ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “empobrecer”, 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