incavalcare
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]By surface analysis, in- + cavalcare. Corresponds to Vulgar Latin *incaballicāre.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]incavalcàre (first-person singular present incavàlco, first-person singular past historic incavalcài, past participle incavalcàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)
- to overlap
- Synonyms: accavallare, sovrapporre
- to accumulate
- Synonyms: accumulare, ammucchiare
- to wear (glasses)
- 1928, Giacomo Leopardi, “Dialogo della Moda e della Morte”, in Operette morali:
- Dovresti sapere che ho mala vista, e che non posso usare occhiali, perché gl'inglesi non ne fanno che mi valgano, e quando ne facessero, io non avrei dove me gl'incavalcassi.
- You should know that I have bad eyesight, and that I cannot use glasses, because the English don't make any that I fit, and when they did, I would have nowhere to wear them.
- to ride (a mount, a bike)
- (military) to mount (a gun) on its carriage
- Antonym: discavalcare
- (knitting) to pass (a stitch) over
- Synonym: accavallare
- (reflexive) See incavalcarsi.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of incavalcàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Further reading
[edit]- “incavalcare”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 7 grav–ing, UTET, 1972, page 640f.
- incavalcare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- incavalcare in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
Categories:
- Italian terms prefixed with in-
- Italian terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Italian terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Italian 5-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/are
- Rhymes:Italian/are/5 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian verbs
- Italian verbs ending in -are
- Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary
- Italian transitive verbs
- Italian terms with quotations
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- it:Knitting