caleffare

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin calefacere.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ka.lefˈfa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ca‧lef‧fà‧re

Verb

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This Italian verb needs to be reviewed and cleaned up.
The definition(s) may be wrong or misleading, and important senses may be missing. The specified auxiliary may also be wrong. The remainder of the conjugation is probably correct for -are verbs but may be wrong in some particulars for -ire verbs (especially the present participle).

caleffàre (first-person singular present calèffo, first-person singular past historic caleffài, past participle caleffàto, auxiliary avére) (obsolete)

  1. (transitive) to do as a joke
  2. (transitive) to mock

Conjugation

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Further reading

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