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noun, feminine

empenta

/emˈpenta/

noun, feminine/emˈpenta/plural: empentas

shove; push

Borrowed from Aragonese empenta or Catalan empenta, a noun based ultimately on some analogical past participle derived from Latin impingere (as if from Vulgar Latin *impincta, but not directly, because that would have yielded *empinta). Displaced in Modern Spanish by words such as empujón.