accorciare

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Italian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *adcurtiāre, from Latin curtus. Compare Sicilian accurzari.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ak.korˈt͡ʃa.re/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ac‧cor‧cià‧re

Verb

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accorciàre (first-person singular present accórcio, first-person singular past historic accorciài, past participle accorciàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)

  1. (transitive) to shorten; to abridge; to abbreviate
  2. (intransitive) to become shorter [auxiliary essere]
  3. (intransitive, figurative) to weaken, to become weaker [auxiliary essere]

Conjugation

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Further reading

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

Anagrams

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