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Italian
Etymology
From elemosina (“charity, alms”) + -are.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.le.mo.ziˈna.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: e‧le‧mo‧si‧nà‧re
Verb
elemosinàre (first-person singular present elemòsino, first-person singular past historic elemosinài, past participle elemosinàto, auxiliary avére)
- (intransitive) to beg
- (transitive) to beg for (alms, a dollar, etc.)
- (transitive, figurative) to scrounge
Conjugation
Further reading
- elemosinare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- elemosinare in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
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