accaffare

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Italian

Etymology

From a- +‎ caffo +‎ -are.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ak.kafˈfa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ac‧caf‧fà‧re

Verb

This Italian verb needs to be reviewed and cleaned up.
The definition(s) may be wrong or misleading, and important senses may be missing. The specified auxiliary may also be wrong. The remainder of the conjugation is probably correct for -are verbs but may be wrong in some particulars for -ire verbs (especially the present participle).

accaffàre (first-person singular present accàffo, first-person singular past historic accaffài, past participle accaffàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (obsolete) to seize, to pilfer
    Synonyms: arraffare, ghermire
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXI”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 52–54; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Poi l’addentar con più di cento raffi,
      disser: «Coverto convien che qui balli,
      sì che, se puoi, nascosamente accaffi».
      They seized him then with more than a hundred rakes; they said: "It here behoves you to dance covered, that, if you can, you secretly may pilfer."

Conjugation

    Conjugation of accaffàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive accaffàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund accaffàndo
present participle accaffànte past participle accaffàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present accàffo accàffi accàffa accaffiàmo accaffàte accàffano
imperfect accaffàvo accaffàvi accaffàva accaffavàmo accaffavàte accaffàvano
past historic accaffài accaffàsti accaffò accaffàmmo accaffàste accaffàrono
future accafferò accafferài accafferà accafferémo accafferéte accafferànno
conditional accafferèi accafferésti accafferèbbe, accafferébbe accafferémmo accafferéste accafferèbbero, accafferébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present accàffi accàffi accàffi accaffiàmo accaffiàte accàffino
imperfect accaffàssi accaffàssi accaffàsse accaffàssimo accaffàste accaffàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
accàffa accàffi accaffiàmo accaffàte accàffino
negative imperative non accaffàre non accàffi non accaffiàmo non accaffàte non accàffino

Further reading

  • accaffare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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