manicare

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Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin mandūcāre (“to chew, (coll.) eat”). Doublet of manducare, manucare, and mangiare.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma.niˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ni‧cà‧re

Verb

manicàre (first-person singular present manùco, first-person singular past historic manicài, past participle manicàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, rarely literary, puristic and humorous) to eat
    Synonyms: (archaic) manducare, mangiare, (obsolete) manucare
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXIII”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 58–63; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      ambo le man per lo dolor mi morsi; / ed ei, pensando ch’io ’l fessi per voglia / di manicar, di sùbito levorsi
      I bit both of my hands in agony; and he, thinking I was doing it out of desire to eat, immediately stood up
    • 1889, Francesco De Sanctis, La giovinezza [Youth]‎, published 1983, page 36:
      Quella gente era venuta non a sentir versi, ma a conversare e a manicare
      Those people were not there to listen to poetry, but to talk and eat

Usage notes

Conjugation

    Conjugation of manicàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive manicàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund manicàndo
present participle manicànte past participle manicàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present manùco manùchi manùca manichiàmo manicàte manùcano
imperfect manicàvo manicàvi manicàva manicavàmo manicavàte manicàvano
past historic manicài manicàsti manicò manicàmmo manicàste manicàrono
future manicherò manicherài manicherà manicherémo manicheréte manicherànno
conditional manicherèi manicherésti manicherèbbe, manicherébbe manicherémmo manicheréste manicherèbbero, manicherébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present manùchi manùchi manùchi manichiàmo manichiàte manùchino
imperfect manicàssi manicàssi manicàsse manicàssimo manicàste manicàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
manùca manùchi manichiàmo manicàte manùchino
negative imperative non manicàre non manùchi non manichiàmo non manicàte non manùchino

Noun

manicare m (plural manicari)

  1. (uncountable) eating
  2. food
    • 1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata prima – Novella prima”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron‎, Bari: Laterza, 1927:
      Ad ogni uomo avviene, quantunque santissimo sia, il parergli, dopo lungo digiuno, buono il manicare, e dopo la fatica, il bere.
      It happens to every man—however saintly he is—to find food pleasant after a long fast, and drinking after work.

Derived terms

Further reading

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

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Latin

Verb

mānicāre

  1. inflection of mānicō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative
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