atterrare

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Italian

Etymology

From a- +‎ terra +‎ -are. Sense 3 "to land (of an aircraft, ship, etc.)" is a calque of French atterrer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /at.terˈra.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: at‧ter‧rà‧re

Verb

atterràre (first-person singular present attèrro, first-person singular past historic atterrài, past participle atterràto, auxiliary (transitive or intransitive) avére or (rarely when intransitive, as an alternative) èssere)

  1. (transitive) to knock down, to throw down
  2. (transitive, figurative) to humiliate, to mortify
  3. (intransitive) to land (of an aircraft, ship, spaceship, etc.)
  4. (intransitive) to land (of a gymnast or skier)

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