scorciare
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Vulgar Latin *excurtiāre, from Latin curtus. Compare Catalan escurçar.
Verb
[edit]scorciàre (first-person singular present scórcio, first-person singular past historic scorciài, past participle scorciàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)
- (transitive) to shorten
- Synonym: accorciare
- (transitive, art) to foreshorten
- (transitive, figurative) to portray incisively
- (intransitive, rare) to appear foreshortened [auxiliary essere]
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of scorciàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Transitive.
2Intransitive.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- scorciare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
[edit]Neapolitan
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Vulgar Latin *excurtiāre.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]scorciare
- to shorten
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “scorciare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano
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