calpestare
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Late Latin calce pistāre (“to pound with the heel”).[1] Distantly related to English caltrop and pestle.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]calpestàre (first-person singular present calpésto, first-person singular past historic calpestài, past participle calpestàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to trample or tread on
- 1975, “Il signor Hood”, in Rimmel, performed by Francesco De Gregori:
- Lo vedi sempre con le spalle al sole, / con un canestro di parole nuove / calpestare nuove aiuole
- You always see it with his shoulders to the sun, / with a hamper of new words / trampling new flowerbeds
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of calpestàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ calpestare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana