empero

emperar

archaic form of imperar

Hyphenated as
em‧pe‧ro
Pronounced as (IPA)
/emˈpeɾo/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish empero. According to Coromines and Pascual, a compound of Old Spanish en (“therefore”), variant of ende + pero (“however”), correspondingly from Latin inde and per hoc. Attested since the mid-13th century in texts such as Libro de Alexandre and Calila e Dimna.

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