marzeggiare
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From marzo (“March”) + -eggiare, referring to the typically variable weather of March.
Verb
[edit]marzeggiàre (first-person singular present marzéggio, first-person singular past historic marzeggiài, past participle marzeggiàto, auxiliary avére) (intransitive)
- to be variable (of weather) [auxiliary avere]
- se marzo non marzeggia, giugno non festeggia (proverb) ― if March isn't variable, June doesn't celebrate
- (uncommon, figurative) to be inconstant, to be moody (of a person) [auxiliary avere]
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of marzeggiàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Further reading
[edit]- marzeggiare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana