empero
Spanish
Etymology
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
- (formal) however, nevertheless
Verb
empero
- first-person singular present indicative of emperar
Further reading
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1985), “pero”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 496
- “empero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014