zittire

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): */d͡zitˈti.re/, (traditional) */t͡sitˈti.re/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: zit‧tì‧re

Verb

zittìre (first-person singular present zittìsco, first-person singular past historic zittìi, past participle zittìto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to silence, to hush, to shush
  2. (intransitive) to be quiet, to fall silent
  3. (intransitive, uncommon) to hiss (in order to shut someone up)

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References

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

Further reading

  • zittire in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • zittire in internazionale.it – Dizionario Italiano di Internazionale – Il Nuovo di Mauro
  • zittire in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • zittire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana