incagliare

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish encallar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in.kaʎˈʎa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: in‧ca‧glià‧re

Verb

incagliàre (first-person singular present incàglio, first-person singular past historic incagliài, past participle incagliàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)

  1. (transitive) to hinder, to obstruct
  2. (intransitive, nautical) to run aground
  3. (intransitive, figurative) to stop, to jam, to get stuck (of work, a discussion, etc.)

Conjugation

Further reading

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

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