accapricciare

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Italian

Etymology

From a- (“to, towards”) +‎ capriccio (“repugnance; horror”) +‎ -are (1st conjugation verbal suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ak.ka.pritˈt͡ʃa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ac‧ca‧pric‧cià‧re

Verb

accapricciàre (first-person singular present accaprìccio, first-person singular past historic accapricciài, past participle accapricciàto, auxiliary èssere or avére)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) Alternative form of raccapricciare (“to shudder”)
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXII”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 31–33; 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:
      I’ vidi, e anco il cor me n’accapriccia,
      uno aspettar così, com’ elli incontra
      ch’una rana rimane e l’altra spiccia
      I saw, and still my heart doth shudder at it, one waiting thus, even as it comes to pass one frog remains, and down another dives

Conjugation

    Conjugation of accapricciàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive accapricciàre
auxiliary verb èssere, avére gerund accapricciàndo
present participle accapricciànte past participle accapricciàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present accaprìccio accaprìcci accaprìccia accapricciàmo accapricciàte accaprìcciano
imperfect accapricciàvo accapricciàvi accapricciàva accapricciavàmo accapricciavàte accapricciàvano
past historic accapricciài accapricciàsti accapricciò accapricciàmmo accapricciàste accapricciàrono
future accapriccerò accapriccerài accapriccerà accapriccerémo accapricceréte accapriccerànno
conditional accapriccerèi accapriccerésti accapriccerèbbe, accapriccerébbe accapriccerémmo accapricceréste accapriccerèbbero, accapriccerébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present accaprìcci accaprìcci accaprìcci accapricciàmo accapricciàte accaprìccino
imperfect accapricciàssi accapricciàssi accapricciàsse accapricciàssimo accapricciàste accapricciàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
accaprìccia accaprìcci accapricciàmo accapricciàte accaprìccino
negative imperative non accapricciàre non accaprìcci non accapricciàmo non accapricciàte non accaprìccino

Derived terms

Further reading

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

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