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fileggiare

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Italian

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Etymology

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From filo +‎ -eggiare.

Verb

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fileggiàre (first-person singular present filéggio, first-person singular past historic fileggiài, past participle fileggiàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (intransitive, nautical) to luff, to flutter (to flap, of a sail oriented in the same direction as the wind) [auxiliary avere]
  2. (intransitive, aeronautics) to be positioned flush with the surface of an aircraft (of the control surfaces of an aircraft: ailerons, rudder, etc.) [auxiliary avere]

Conjugation

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Further reading

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