Noun: empregado
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | empregado |
| Singular f | empregada |
| Plural m | empregados |
| Plural f | empregadas |
Sample Sentences
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[…] os empregados non se deixan asoballar pola súa maldade, e o mesmo porteiro deprendeu a poñerlle cara de can. Somente Pedro é un manteiguiñas, incapaz de defenderse. A covardía do xefe cabalga na covardía de Pedro, para locí-las arroutadas que non é quen de descargar no lombo dos outros. Pedro sofre en silenzo; pero cóme-no as xenreiras, e non pode ollá-la cara daquel home sen desexarlle a morte. ([…] employees don't let him oppress them with his meanness, and even the doorman learnt to put an angry face for him. But Pedro is a poor thing, unable to defend himself. The boss' cowardice rides Pedro's, to show off the outbursts that he is incapable of discharging over other's shoulders. Pedro suffers in silence; but spite eats him, and he can't watch that man's face without wishing him death.) [1934, Castelao, Os dous de sempre, page 127:]
Nouns inflected like empregado
preguiceiro,
metafísico,
serbio,
entomólogo,
estreleiro,
cunqueiro,
becerro,
palestino,
granxeiro,
georgiano,
kiribatiano,
escandinavo,
chadiano,
tamborileiro,
antónimo,
búlgaro,
alcohólico,
milenario,
mauritano,
anglofóbico, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
3. Proto-Italic *en
4. Proto-Italic *en-
5. Latin in-
6. Proto-Indo-European *pel-
7. Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-der.
8. Latin plicō
9. Latin implicāreslbor.
10. Old Galician-Portuguese empregar
11. Galician empregar
12. Galician -ado
13. Galician empregado
14. From empregar + -ado.
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