empero

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish empero. According to Coromines and Pascual, a compound of Old Spanish en (“therefore”), variant of ende + pero (“however”), correspondingly from Latin inde and per hoc. Attested since the mid-13th century in texts such as Libro de Alexandre and Calila e Dimna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /emˈpeɾo/ [ẽmˈpe.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: em‧pe‧ro

Adverb

empero

1. (formal) however, nevertheless

Verb

empero

1. first-person singular present indicative of emperar

Further reading

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1985) “pero”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 496
• “empero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28