empaste

See also: empasté

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /emˈpaste/ [ẽmˈpas.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -aste
• Syllabification: em‧pas‧te

Etymology 1

Deverbal from empastar.

Noun

empaste m (plural empastes)

1. (dentistry) filling

Etymology 2

Verb

empaste

1. inflection of empastar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “empaste”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025