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Italian
Etymology
Variant of older annichilare, borrowed from Latin annihilāre (“to reduce to nothing”), from ad (“to”) + nihil (“nothing”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /an.ni.kiˈli.re/
- Rhymes: -ire
- Hyphenation: an‧ni‧chi‧lì‧re
Verb
annichilìre (first-person singular present annichilìsco, first-person singular past historic annichilìi, past participle annichilìto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to annihilate
- (transitive) to devastate
Conjugation
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Further reading
- annichilire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana