empresario

See also: empresário

English

Etymology

Spanish empresario

Noun

empresario (plural empresarios)

1. A Spanish entrepreneur or businessman.
   • 2018, Marcos Mendoza, The Patagonian Sublime (page 70)

     Empresarios are the privileged fraction of the entrepreneurial class.

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Proto-Indo-European *per-

Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-i

Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?

Proto-Italic *prai

Proto-Italic *prai-

Proto-Indo-European *gʰed-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *gʰnédti

Proto-Italic *hendō

Proto-Italic *praiɣendō

Latin prehendere

Vulgar Latin *imprehendere

Italian imprenderedeverb.

Italian impresabor.

Spanish empresa

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriuslbor.

Spanish -ario

Spanish empresario

From empresa + -ario.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /empɾeˈsaɾjo/ [ẽm.pɾeˈsa.ɾjo]
• Rhymes: -aɾjo
• Syllabification: em‧pre‧sa‧rio

Noun

empresario m (plural empresarios, feminine empresaria, feminine plural empresarias)

1. businessman

   Synonym: hombre de negocios

2. entrepreneur

   Synonym: emprendedor

3. contractor

   Synonym: contratista

Derived terms

• empresario de pompas fúnebres

Related terms

• empresa

Further reading

• “empresario”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026