cempennare
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perhaps related to inciampare (“to trip”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]cempennàre (first-person singular present cempénno, first-person singular past historic cempennài, past participle cempennàto, auxiliary avére) (Tuscany, intransitive)
- to trip repeatedly
- (figurative) to act slowly and inconclusively
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of cempennàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- cempennare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana