scoppiare

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skopˈpja.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: scop‧pià‧re

Etymology 1

From scoppio (explosion) +‎ -are.

Verb

scoppiàre (first-person singular present scòppio, first-person singular past historic scoppiài, past participle scoppiàto, auxiliary èssere) (intransitive)

  1. to explode, to burst
  2. (figurative) to burst out, to break out, to explode (of emotions, of a war, etc.)
    • 1976, “A far l'amore comincia tu”, Daniele Pace (lyrics), Franco Bracardi (music), performed by Raffaella Carrà:
      Portalo in fondo ad un cielo blu / Le sue paure di quel momento / Le fai scoppiare soltanto tu / Scoppia, scoppia mi scoppia il cuor
      Take him deep into a blue sky / The fears he feels in that moment / Are caused only by you / It explodes, it explodes, it explo… It explodes, it explodes, my heart explodes
  3. (figurative) to be overflowing, to be bursting
  4. (figurative, sports) to give out from exhaustion (e.g. of a marathon runner)
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Further reading
  • scoppiare1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • scoppiare in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa

Etymology 2

From s- +‎ coppia +‎ -are.

Verb

scoppiàre (first-person singular present scòppio or scóppio[1], first-person singular past historic scoppiài, past participle scoppiàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. (uncommon) to separate, to divide (a pair of people or things)
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Further reading
  • scoppiare2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

References

  1. ^ scoppio in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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