encomendar

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to order; to instruct
  2. (transitive) to commission
  3. (transitive) to recommend
  4. (pronominal) to commend oneself; to entrust oneself

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
en‧co‧men‧dar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ẽ.ko.mẽˈda(ʁ)/
Etymology

From en- + Old Galician-Portuguese comendar, from Latin commendāre. Compare comandar, a doublet borrowed from French.

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