protuberare

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Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin prōtūberāre (to swell or bulge out).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pro.tu.beˈra.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: pro‧tu‧be‧rà‧re

Verb

protuberàre (first-person singular present protùbero, first-person singular past historic protuberài, no past participle)

  1. (literary, rare, intransitive) to protrude or stick out
    Synonym: sporgere

Conjugation

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

prōtūberāre

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