mangiare

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Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French mangier, from Latin mandūcāre (“to chew, (coll.) eat”). Doublet of manducare, manicare, and manucare.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /manˈd͡ʒa.re/
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  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: man‧già‧re

Verb

mangiàre (first-person singular present màngio, first-person singular past historic mangiài, past participle mangiàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to eat
    Synonym: (archaic, now chiefly jocular) manducare
  2. (intransitive) to tuck in, to start to eat
  3. (intransitive, by extension) to live
    Synonyms: campare, vivere
  4. (transitive, by extension) to gnaw, to nibble, to eat away at (of insects)
    Synonyms: rodere, rosicchiare
  5. (transitive, by extension) to consume
    Synonyms: consumare, rodere
    Quella serratura è tutta mangiata dalla ruggine. ― That lock is completely consumed by rust.
  6. (transitive, figurative, rare) to dissipate, to squander
    Synonyms: consumare, mangiarsi
    Ha mangiato in breve tempo tutta l’eredità. ― She dissipated all of her inheritance in a short time.
  7. (intransitive, figurative) to graft (to obtain illegal gain from dishonest practices, especially in public life)
  8. (transitive, figurative, card games, checkers, chess) to capture

Conjugation

    Conjugation of mangiàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive mangiàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund mangiàndo
present participle mangiànte past participle mangiàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present màngio màngi màngia mangiàmo mangiàte màngiano
imperfect mangiàvo mangiàvi mangiàva mangiavàmo mangiavàte mangiàvano
past historic mangiài mangiàsti mangiò mangiàmmo mangiàste mangiàrono
future mangerò mangerài mangerà mangerémo mangeréte mangerànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present mangerèi mangerésti mangerèbbe, mangerébbe mangerémmo mangeréste mangerèbbero, mangerébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present màngi màngi màngi mangiàmo mangiàte màngino
imperfect mangiàssi mangiàssi mangiàsse mangiàssimo mangiàste mangiàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
màngia màngi mangiàmo mangiàte màngino
negative imperative non mangiàre non màngi non mangiàmo non mangiàte non màngino

Derived terms

Descendants

Noun

mangiare m (uncountable)

  1. eating
  2. (colloquial, dialectal) food, scoff
    Synonyms: cibo, nutrimento

See also

Further reading

  • mangiare1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • mangiare2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian mangiare.

Pronunciation

Verb

mangiare

  1. to eat

Conjugation

    Conjugation of mangià (first conjugation)
infinitive mangià
gerund mangianno
present participle mangiante
past participle mangiato
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je/i' tu isso/essa nuje vuje lloro
present mangio mangie mangia mangiammo mangiate mangiano
imperfect mangiavo mangiave mangiava mangiavamo mangiavate mangiavano
passato remòto mangiaje mangiaste mangiaje mangiajemo mangiastevo mangiajeno
future mangiarraggio mangiarraje mangiarrà mangiarrimmo mangiarrite mangiarranno
conditional mangiarria mangiarrisse mangiarria mangiarrissemo mangiarrissevo mangiarriano
compound
tenses 		passato pròssimo Use the present tense of avé plus the past participle
trapasato pròssimo Use the imperfect tense of avé plus the past participle
trapasato remòto Use the passato remòto tense of avé plus the past participle
futuro anteriore Use the future tense of avé plus the past participle
cunnizziunale passato Use the conditional tense of avé plus the past participle
imperfect subjunctive ca je/i' ca tu ca isso/ca essa ca nuje ca vuje ca lloro
mangiasse mangiasse mangiasse mangiassemo mangiassevo mangiassero
imperative - tu isso/essa nuje vuje lloro
mangia mangia mangiammo mangiate mangieno

Noun

mangiare m (plural )

  1. (often uncountable) food

References

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 1014: “mangiare; mangia” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “mangiare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano
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