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Italian
Etymology
From a- (“to, towards”) + lumaca (“snail”) + -are (1st-conjugation verbal suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /al.lu.maˈka.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: al‧lu‧ma‧cà‧re
Verb
allumacàre (first-person singular present allumàco, first-person singular past historic allumacài, past participle allumacàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive, Tuscan) to mark with a trail of slime or mucus
- (transitive, Tuscan, by extension) to smudge, to dirty
- (transitive, Tuscan, by extension) to make streaks on (a fabric) by ironing it against the nap
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Further reading
- allumacare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana