empobrecer

Portuguese

Verb

empobrecer (first-person singular present indicative empobreço, past participle empobrecido)

  1. (transitive) to impoverish (to make poor)
  2. (intransitive) to impoverish (to become poor)

Conjugation


Spanish

Etymology

From en- + Late Latin pauperāscere, present active infinitive of pauperāscō, probably through an unattested variant *pauperēscō. Alternatively through an archaic *pobrecer, from the same source.

Verb

empobrecer (first-person singular present empobrezco, first-person singular preterite empobrecí, past participle empobrecido)

  1. to impoverish, make poor, break financially.

Conjugation

  • Rule: c becomes a zc before a or o.
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