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Italian
Etymology
From archaic dispacciare (modern disimpacciare), from Franco-Provençal despachar or Old French despechier (modern French dépêcher).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spatˈt͡ʃa.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: spac‧cià‧re
Verb
spacciàre (first-person singular present spàccio, first-person singular past historic spacciài, past participle spacciàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)
- to traffic in (drugs, etc.)
- to peddle, push (drugs)
- to pass off (something)
- to utter (nonsense, lies, etc.)
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Further reading
- spacciare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- spacciare in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
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