saccheggiare
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sacco + -eggiare; cognate with Piedmontese sachegé.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]saccheggiàre (first-person singular present sacchéggio, first-person singular past historic saccheggiài, past participle saccheggiàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to sack, plunder
- (transitive, figurative, by extension) to plagiarize
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of saccheggiàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: saquejar
Further reading
[edit]- saccheggiare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana