sprazzare

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Italian

Etymology

Variant of spruzzare. Its literary sense is most likely due to an influence of the much more common sprazzo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spratˈt͡sa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: spraz‧zà‧re

Verb

This Italian verb needs to be reviewed and cleaned up.
The definition(s) may be wrong or misleading, and important senses may be missing. The specified auxiliary may also be wrong. The remainder of the conjugation is probably correct for -are verbs but may be wrong in some particulars for -ire verbs (especially the present participle).

sprazzàre (first-person singular present spràzzo, first-person singular past historic sprazzài, past participle sprazzàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (rare, archaic) Alternative form of spruzzare
  2. (literary):
  3. (transitive) to give off or emit in short bursts
    • 1924, Luigi Pirandello, “La liberazione del re”, in Novelle per un anno:
      scoteva la cresta sanguigna, sprazzando luce da tutte le penne dai colori cangianti
      shook its sanguine comb, giving off light from every one of its iridescent feathers
  4. (intransitive) to appear in short bursts

Conjugation

    Conjugation of sprazzàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive sprazzàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund sprazzàndo
present participle sprazzànte past participle sprazzàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present spràzzo spràzzi spràzza sprazziàmo sprazzàte spràzzano
imperfect sprazzàvo sprazzàvi sprazzàva sprazzavàmo sprazzavàte sprazzàvano
past historic sprazzài sprazzàsti sprazzò sprazzàmmo sprazzàste sprazzàrono
future sprazzerò sprazzerài sprazzerà sprazzerémo sprazzeréte sprazzerànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present sprazzerèi sprazzerésti sprazzerèbbe, sprazzerébbe sprazzerémmo sprazzeréste sprazzerèbbero, sprazzerébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present spràzzi spràzzi spràzzi sprazziàmo sprazziàte spràzzino
imperfect sprazzàssi sprazzàssi sprazzàsse sprazzàssimo sprazzàste sprazzàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
spràzza spràzzi sprazziàmo sprazzàte spràzzino
negative imperative non sprazzàre non spràzzi non sprazziàmo non sprazzàte non spràzzino

Further reading

  • sprazzare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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