spuntare

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spunˈta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: spun‧tà‧re

Etymology 1

From s- +‎ punta +‎ -are.

Verb

spuntàre (first-person singular present spùnto, first-person singular past historic spuntài, past participle spuntàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)

  1. (transitive) to break (the point of a pencil, etc.)
  2. (transitive) to trim or snip (a beard, etc.)
  3. (transitive) to tick off (names in a register)
  4. (transitive) to fetch (a good price)
  5. (transitive) to grow (teeth)
  6. (intransitive) to emerge, to appear, to come out, to pop up, to stick out
    Sto aspettando quando ad un tratto ti vedrò spuntare in lontananza.
    I am waiting that moment, when I'll see you suddenly appearing on the horizon.
    (L'appuntamento, Ornella Vanoni)
  7. (intransitive) to sprout
  8. (intransitive) to rise (of the sun)
  9. (intransitive) to break (of the dawn)
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Noun

spuntare m (plural spuntari)

  1. rise (of the sun, etc.)

Etymology 2

From s- +‎ punto +‎ -are, on the model of appuntare.

Verb

spuntàre (first-person singular present spùnto, first-person singular past historic spuntài, past participle spuntàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to check off (an item with a pen)
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Etymology 3

From appuntare, with replacement of the prefix by s-.

Verb

spuntàre (first-person singular present spùnto, first-person singular past historic spuntài, past participle spuntàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to unpin, to unclip, to unstitch
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