empreender

• emprehender (obsolete)
• emprender (obsolete)

From Old Portuguese emprender, from Vulgar Latin *imprendere, from *imprehendere, present infinitive of *imprehendo, from Latin in + prehendō. The current form came from the older emprehender, modified in a learned manner from the popularly inherited, now obsolete, form emprender to more closely reflect the Latin etymon, as with compreender and comprender, repreender and reprender, etc.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ẽ.pɾjẽ.ˈdeɾ/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ẽ.ˌpɾe.ẽ.ˈde(ɻ)/

empreender (first-person singular present indicative empreendo, past participle empreendido)

1. to attempt
2. to undertake (to start an enterprise)

• (attempt): tentar, começar
• (undertake): iniciar

• empreendedor
• empreendido
• empreendimento

• prender