roncare

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See also: roncaré

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin runcāre (“to weed, to weed out”), from Proto-Italic *runkō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃runékti ~ *h₃runkénti, nasal infix present of the root *h₃rewk-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ronˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ron‧cà‧re

Verb

roncàre (first-person singular present rónco, first-person singular past historic roncài, past participle roncàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to cut, to prune (especially using a roncola (“billhook”))
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XX, page 300, lines 46–48:
      Aronta è quel ch'al ventre li s'atterga, ¶ che ne' monti di Luni, dove ronca ¶ lo Carrarese che di sotto alberga
      That Aruns is, who backs the other's belly, ¶ who in the hills of Luni, there where grubs ¶ the Carrarese who houses underneath
    • 1950, Cesare Pavese, “Chapter 1”, in La luna e i falò [The Moon and the Bonfires]‎, New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, published 1955, page 14:
      se di quella riva fossi stato padrone, l'avrei magari roncata e messa a grano
      Had I been the owner of that slope, I could have pruned it and planted wheat in it.
    • a. 1961, Luigi Einaudi, Scritti economici, storici e civili‎, published 2016:
      Lo immagino impegnato a roncare parte del bosco e farne campo o vigneto.
      I imagine him busy pruning part of the woods, making it into a field or a vineyard.

Conjugation

    Conjugation of roncàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive roncàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund roncàndo
present participle roncànte past participle roncàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present rónco rónchi rónca ronchiàmo roncàte róncano
imperfect roncàvo roncàvi roncàva roncavàmo roncavàte roncàvano
past historic roncài roncàsti roncò roncàmmo roncàste roncàrono
future roncherò roncherài roncherà roncherémo roncheréte roncherànno
conditional roncherèi roncherésti roncherèbbe, roncherébbe roncherémmo roncheréste roncherèbbero, roncherébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present rónchi rónchi rónchi ronchiàmo ronchiàte rónchino
imperfect roncàssi roncàssi roncàsse roncàssimo roncàste roncàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
rónca rónchi ronchiàmo roncàte rónchino
negative imperative non roncàre non rónchi non ronchiàmo non roncàte non rónchino

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Spanish

Verb

roncare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of roncar
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