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scorciare

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Italian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *excurtiāre, from Latin curtus. Compare Catalan escurçar.

Verb

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scorciàre (first-person singular present scórcio, first-person singular past historic scorciài, past participle scorciàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)

  1. (transitive) to shorten
    Synonym: accorciare
  2. (transitive, art) to foreshorten
  3. (transitive, figurative) to portray incisively
  4. (intransitive, rare) to appear foreshortened [auxiliary essere]

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • scorciare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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Neapolitan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *excurtiāre.

Pronunciation

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  • (Naples) IPA(key): [ʃkurˈt͡ʃa]

Verb

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scorciare

  1. to shorten

Derived terms

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References

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  • Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “scorciare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano