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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin intoxicāre, from Latin toxicāre, verb based on Latin toxicum (“poison”). By surface analysis, in- + tossico (“poison”) + -are (1st conjugation verbal suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in.tos.siˈka.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: in‧tos‧si‧cà‧re
Verb
intossicàre (first-person singular present intòssico, first-person singular past historic intossicài, past participle intossicàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive, medicine) to poison
- (transitive, medicine) to intoxicate
- (transitive, figurative) to corrupt morally, to spoil
Conjugation
Further reading
- intossicare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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