virare

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See also: viraré

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French virer, possibly from Vulgar Latin *virāre, perhaps a cross between Latin gȳrāre and vibrō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /viˈra.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: vi‧rà‧re

Verb

viràre (first-person singular present vìro, first-person singular past historic virài, past participle viràto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, nautical) to turn, to rotate (the winch, in order to pull up the anchor)
  2. (transitive) to turn, to rotate (a ship, a plane)
  3. (intransitive) to veer, turn away
  4. (intransitive, nautical) to come about, change course; to tack
  5. (intransitive) to bank (of an aircraft)
  6. (intransitive, chemistry) to turn (a particular color)
  7. (intransitive, art) to vary in color (of paint)
  8. (intransitive, photography) to chemically replace silver granules with colored ones

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Russian: ви́ра (víra)

Anagrams

Spanish

Verb

virare

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