biancicare

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Italian

Etymology

From bianco (white) +‎ -icare, on the example of Latin albicāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bjan.t͡ʃiˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: bian‧ci‧cà‧re

Verb

biancicàre (first-person singular present biàncico, first-person singular past historic biancicài, past participle biancicàto, auxiliary avére) (literary, intransitive)

  1. to be white; to be whitish
    Synonym: biancheggiare
    • 1909, Giovanni Pascoli, “La pecorella smarrita”, in Nuovi poemetti, published 1918, page 75, lines 5–6:
      [] Il cielo scende a goccia a goccia.
      Biancica, in terra, qua e là, la strada
      The sky comes down drop by drop. On the earth, here and there, the road is whitish.

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Further reading

  • biancicare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana