empreender

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === emprehender (obsolete) emprender (obsolete) === Etymology === Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese emprender, from Vulgar Latin *imprehendere. The current form came from the older emprehender, modified in a learned manner from the popularly inherited, now obsolete, form emprender to more closely reflect the Latin etymon, as with compreender and comprender, repreender and reprender, etc. === Pronunciation === === Verb === empreender (first-person singular present empreendo, first-person singular preterite empreendi, past participle empreendido) to attempt Synonyms: tentar, começar to undertake (to start an enterprise) Synonym: iniciar ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== prender === Further reading === “empreender”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “empreender”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026