beccheggiare
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From becco (“beak”) + -eggiare.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]beccheggiàre (first-person singular present becchéggio, first-person singular past historic beccheggiài, past participle beccheggiàto, auxiliary avére) (intransitive)
- (nautical, aviation) to pitch (move so that the front goes up and down) [auxiliary avere]
- (figurative) to oscillate [auxiliary avere]
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of beccheggiàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- beccheggiare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana