empedernido

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pe.deʁˈni.du/ [ẽ.pe.deɦˈni.du], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pe.deʁˈni.du/ [ĩ.pe.deɦˈni.du]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pe.deʁˈni.du/ [ẽ.pe.deɦˈni.du], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pe.deʁˈni.du/ [ĩ.pe.deɦˈni.du]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pe.deɾˈni.du/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pe.deɾˈni.du/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pe.deʁˈni.du/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pe.deʁˈni.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pe.deɻˈni.do/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pe.deɻˈni.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ẽ.pɨ.dɨɾˈni.du/ [ẽ.pɨ.ðɨɾˈni.ðu]

Adjective

empedernido (feminine empedernida, masculine plural empedernidos, feminine plural empedernidas)

1. rock hard (hard like rock)
2. (figuratively) inflexible, insensible

Participle

empedernido (feminine empedernida, masculine plural empedernidos, feminine plural empedernidas)

1. past participle of empedernir

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /empedeɾˈnido/ [ẽm.pe.ð̞eɾˈni.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ido
• Syllabification: em‧pe‧der‧ni‧do

Adjective

empedernido (feminine empedernida, masculine plural empedernidos, feminine plural empedernidas)

1. hardened, inveterate
2. hopeless
3. confirmed

Participle

empedernido (feminine empedernida, masculine plural empedernidos, feminine plural empedernidas)

1. past participle of empedernir

Further reading

• “empedernido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10