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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)
- (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
- inflection of prōtūberō:
- present active infinitive
- second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative