glissare

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French glisser.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡlisˈsa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: glis‧sà‧re

Verb

glissàre (first-person singular present glìsso, first-person singular past historic glissài, past participle glissàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (intransitive, music) to play a glissando
  2. (intransitive) to wilfully avoid a topic; to gloss over
    non glissare sul problemadon't gloss over the problem

Conjugation

Further reading

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

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