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Italian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *manidiāre (“handle”), from Latin manus (“hand”) + -idiāre (“verbalizing suffix”). Compare French manier.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.nedˈd͡ʒa.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: ma‧neg‧già‧re
Verb
maneggiàre (first-person singular present manéggio, first-person singular past historic maneggiài, past participle maneggiàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)
- to use with a technical purpose; to handle
- maneggiare un'attrezzo ― to handle a tool
- to mould/mold or sculpt
- maneggiare l'argilla ― to mould/mold clay
- to master
- maneggiare una lingua ― to master a language
- to administer
- (sports) to train (a horse for horseracing)
- (rare) to exploit (someone's) submissiveness or passivity
- (rare) to palpate (an animal for slaughter) to check the degree of fattening
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Further reading
- maneggiare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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