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Italian
Etymology
From in- + fistola + -ire.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in.fi.stoˈli.re/
- Rhymes: -ire
- Hyphenation: in‧fi‧sto‧lì‧re
Verb
infistolìre (first-person singular present infistolìsco, first-person singular past historic infistolìi, past participle infistolìto, auxiliary (intransitive) èssere or (transitive) avére)
- (intransitive, medicine, pathology) to fistulize (to form a fistula, e.g. of a wound)
- Synonym: (more common) fistolizzare
- (intransitive, figurative) to become incorrigible, to become chronic, to plague (of evils, vices, etc.)
- (transitive, medicine, surgery, rare) to fistulize (a wound, etc.), to make a fistula in (e.g. in order to relieve pressure)
Conjugation
1Intransitive.
2Transitive.
Further reading
- infistolire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana