empenta

Noun

1. (feminine) push, shove
2. (feminine) push (great effort)
3. (feminine) push (attempt to persuade someone to do something)

Verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) inflection of empentar:
2. (form-of, imperative, second-person, singular) inflection of empentar:

empentar

to push, to shove

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Pronounced as (IPA)

[əmˈpɛn.tə]

Etymology

Inherited from Latin: impingō

Cognate with Italian: impinta

In summary

From a substantivation of the feminine of Old Catalan empent (the original past participle of empènyer), from Vulgar Latin *impinctus, as an alternative past participle of Latin impingō (instead of the Classical participle impāctus). The Vulgar Latin form would have ordinarily yielded a Catalan *empint, but analogy with other forms of the verb resulted in empent. Compare Italian impinta.

Concepts

push

thrust

shove

drive

jabbing

jostling

poke

poking

press

pressure

prod

prodding

pushing

spirit

spur

spurring

thrusting

urging

goad

goading

jab

Synonyms

dinamisme

incentiu

estímul

impulsió

agulló

ànim

esperó

fibló

espenta

colzada

pitjada

fible

Translations

empujón

spinta

impulsion

empurrão

élan

pousser

Stoßen

Stoß

دافِع

ώθηση

γρονθοκόπημα

δυναμισμός

ενεργητικότητα

ζωηρότητα

ψυχή