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Italian
Etymology
From a- (“to, towards”) + razzo (“rocket”) + -are (1st-conjugation verbal suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ar.radˈd͡za.re/, /ar.ratˈt͡sa.re/[1]
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: ar‧raz‧zà‧re
Verb
arrazzàre (first-person singular present arràzzo, first-person singular past historic arrazzài, past participle arrazzàto, auxiliary (intransitive) èssere or (transitive) avére)
- (rare, intransitive) to burn
- Synonyms: ardere, bruciare
- (by extension, rare, intransitive) to blaze, to glow
- Synonyms: brillare, rifulgere, sfolgorare
- (by extension, rare, intransitive) to redden, to become red
- Synonyms: arrossare, arrossarsi
- (literary, transitive) to flare (to cause to burn)
- Synonyms: accendere, incendiare
- (figurative, Rome, vulgar, transitive) to turn on (to excite sexually), to make horny, to make randy
- Synonym: eccitare
Conjugation
1Intransitive.
2Transitive.
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- arrazzare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- arrazzare in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
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