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emplazar
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Spanish
Etymology
From em- + plaza + -ar. Cognate to English emplace, French emplacer, Portuguese emplaçar, Catalan emplaçar & Italian impiazzare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /emplaˈθaɾ/ [ẽm.plaˈθaɾ] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /emplaˈsaɾ/ [ẽm.plaˈsaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: em‧pla‧zar
Verb
emplazar (first-person singular present emplazo, first-person singular preterite emplacé, past participle emplazado)
- (transitive) to put (in its place)
- (transitive) to set a deadline
- (transitive, catenative) to call on, to request [with direct object ‘someone’ and a (+ infinitive) ‘to do something’]
- 2023 August 8, Marc Rovira, “ERC y Junts se emplazan a aparcar sus diferencias ante la “oportunidad histórica” de decantar la investidura”, in El País:
- La secretaria general adjunta y portavoz de ERC, Marta Vilalta, ha emplazado a JxCat a “aparcar los reproches” entre independentistas y buscar “puntos de acuerdo”.
- ERC's deputy general secretary and spokesperson Marta Vilalta has called on JxCat “to set aside the reproaches” among independentists and look for “points of agreement”.
- (transitive, law) to summon
- emplazar a un testigo
- summon a witness
Conjugation
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “emplazar”, 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
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