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Italian
Etymology
From affondare (“to sink”) + -si (“oneself”, enclitic reflexive pronoun).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /af.fonˈdar.si/
- Rhymes: -arsi
- Hyphenation: af‧fon‧dàr‧si
Verb
affondàrsi (first-person singular present mi affóndo, first-person singular past historic mi affondài, past participle affondàto)
- reflexive of affondare: to sink oneself
- (intransitive, rare) to sink, to founder
- Synonyms: affondare, colare a picco
1516, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto decimo [Tenth Canto]”, in Orlando Furioso [Raging Roland], Venice: Printed by Gabriel Giolito, published 1551, page 41:Il Conte d’Arindelia è quel, c’ha messo
In mar quella barchetta, che s’affonda- The Count of Arindelia is the one who put in the sea that small boat that sinks
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Further reading
- affondarsi in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication