picchiare
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Onomatopoeic, related to picca, piccare.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]picchiàre (first-person singular present pìcchio, first-person singular past historic picchiài, past participle picchiàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to beat, to hit, to thrash, to hammer
- Synonyms: percuotere, battere
- (transitive) to strike, to bang, to pat, to tap
- (intransitive) to beat, to knock, to thump, to tap, to bang [auxiliary avere]
- (intransitive) to insist [auxiliary avere]
- Synonym: insistere
- (intransitive) to pound, throb [auxiliary avere]
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of picchiàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ picchiare1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana