raddoppiare

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Italian

Etymology

From ra- +‎ doppio +‎ -are.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rad.dopˈpja.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: rad‧dop‧pià‧re

Verb

raddoppiàre (first-person singular present raddóppio, first-person singular past historic raddoppiài, past participle raddoppiàto, auxiliary (transitive or intransitive) avére or (also in the intransitive meanings "to double, to intensify") èssere)

  1. (transitive) to double, redouble
  2. (transitive) to duplicate
  3. (transitive, figurative) to increase, to intensify
  4. (transitive, linguistics) to reduplicate
  5. (transitive, music) to double (a note) (to assign a note to two or more parts)
  6. (transitive, sports) to double (an opponent) (to assign two players to the same opponent)
  7. (intransitive) to double
  8. (intransitive, figurative) to increase in strength, to intensify (e.g. of the wind)
  9. (intransitive, billiards) to score a double shot
  10. (intransitive, fencing) to make a double strike (on an opponent)
  11. (intransitive, soccer) to score a second goal
  12. (intransitive, horseriding) to gallop with the two front legs together, followed by the hindquarters

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References

  1. ^ raddoppiare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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