sbroccare

Italian

Etymology 1

From s- +‎ brocco (“stump of a branch”) +‎ -are.

Verb

sbroccàre (first-person singular present sbròcco, first-person singular past historic sbroccài, past participle sbroccàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (agriculture) to prune the stumps of branches of (a tree) (left over from a previous poorly executed pruning)
Conjugation

Etymology 2

From s- +‎ brocca (“jug, pitcher”) +‎ -are.[1]

Verb

sbroccàre (first-person singular present sbròcco, first-person singular past historic sbroccài, past participle sbroccàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (Rome) to lose control, to go crazy, to snap [auxiliary avere]
Conjugation

References

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