ammaccare

Italian

Etymology

From Latin maccāre (“bruise, batter, crush”), of unknown origin, possibly onomatopoeic.[1] However, compare marculus (“small hammer”), and massa (“bulk, mass”), which influenced the development of Portuguese amassar (“knead, mold, form”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /am.makˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: am‧mac‧cà‧re

Verb

ammaccàre (first-person singular present ammàcco, first-person singular past historic ammaccài, past participle ammaccàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to dent
  2. (transitive) to bruise

Conjugation

References

  1. ammaccare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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