roncare
Appearance
See also: roncaré
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin runcāre (“to weed, to weed out”), from Proto-Italic *runkō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃runékti ~ *h₃runkénti, nasal infix present of the root *h₃rewk-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]roncàre (first-person singular present rónco, first-person singular past historic roncài, past participle roncàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to cut, to prune (especially using a roncola (“billhook”))
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XX, page 300, lines 46–48:
- Aronta è quel ch'al ventre li s'atterga, ¶ che ne' monti di Luni, dove ronca ¶ lo Carrarese che di sotto alberga
- That Aruns is, who backs the other's belly, ¶ who in the hills of Luni, there where grubs ¶ the Carrarese who houses underneath
- 1950, Cesare Pavese, “Chapter 1”, in La luna e i falò [The Moon and the Bonfires][1], New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, published 1955, page 14:
- se di quella riva fossi stato padrone, l'avrei magari roncata e messa a grano
- Had I been the owner of that slope, I could have pruned it and planted wheat in it.
- a. 1961, Luigi Einaudi, Scritti economici, storici e civili[2], published 2016:
- Lo immagino impegnato a roncare parte del bosco e farne campo o vigneto.
- I imagine him busy pruning part of the woods, making it into a field or a vineyard.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of roncàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive | roncàre | |||||
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auxiliary verb | avére | gerund | roncàndo | |||
present participle | roncànte | past participle | roncàto | |||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | rónco | rónchi | rónca | ronchiàmo | roncàte | róncano |
imperfect | roncàvo | roncàvi | roncàva | roncavàmo | roncavàte | roncàvano |
past historic | roncài | roncàsti | roncò | roncàmmo | roncàste | roncàrono |
future | roncherò | roncherài | roncherà | roncherémo | roncheréte | roncherànno |
conditional | roncherèi | roncherésti | roncherèbbe, roncherébbe | roncherémmo | roncheréste | roncherèbbero, roncherébbero |
subjunctive | che io | che tu | che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa | che noi | che voi | che loro, che essi/che esse |
present | rónchi | rónchi | rónchi | ronchiàmo | ronchiàte | rónchino |
imperfect | roncàssi | roncàssi | roncàsse | roncàssimo | roncàste | roncàssero |
imperative | — | tu | Lei | noi | voi | Loro |
rónca | rónchi | ronchiàmo | roncàte | rónchino | ||
negative imperative | non roncàre | non rónchi | non ronchiàmo | non roncàte | non rónchino |
Derived terms
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[edit]Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]roncare
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