empecinar
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From em- + pecina (“sludge”) + -ar.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /empeθiˈnaɾ/ [ẽm.pe.θiˈnaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /empesiˈnaɾ/ [ẽm.pe.siˈnaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: em‧pe‧ci‧nar
Verb
[edit]empecinar (first-person singular present empecino, first-person singular preterite empeciné, past participle empecinado)
- (transitive) to smear with mud
- (reflexive) to be stubborn, to insist
- (reflexive) to get (something) into one's head
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of empecinar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “empecinar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28