appuntare

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ap.punˈta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ap‧pun‧tà‧re

Etymology 1

From a- +‎ punta +‎ -are.

Verb

appuntàre (first-person singular present appùnto, first-person singular past historic appuntài, past participle appuntàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to sharpen (a point)
  2. (transitive) to point (a finger, etc.), to aim (a gun, etc.)
  3. (transitive) to fix (one's gaze)
  4. (transitive) to pin (to fix with a pin)
  5. (transitive) to join with stitches
  6. (transitive, by extension) to attach, to affix
  7. (transitive) to note down
  8. (transitive, by extension) to criticize, to censure, to reproach
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Etymology 2

From a- +‎ punto +‎ -are, originally "to note with a dot".

Verb

appuntàre (first-person singular present appùnto, first-person singular past historic appuntài, past participle appuntàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to note down
  2. (transitive, by extension) to criticize, to censure, to reproach
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Etymology 3

Calque of Old French appointer (to settle a deal).

Verb

appuntàre (first-person singular present appùnto, first-person singular past historic appuntài, past participle appuntàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere) (archaic)

  1. (transitive) to balance (accounts)
  2. (transitive) to establish by mutual agreement
  3. (intransitive) to agree, to be in agreement
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