sorpasso

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See also: sorpassò

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sorˈpas.so/
  • Rhymes: -asso
  • Hyphenation: sor‧pàs‧so

Etymology 1

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Noun

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sorpasso m (plural sorpassi)

  1. overtaking (in a car)

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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sorpasso

  1. first-person singular present indicative of sorpassare

Anagrams

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Italian sorpasso

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sorpasso m (plural sorpassos)

  1. (politics) overtaking (situation where a political party manages to get more votes that a party that was previously more successful than it, especially if both parties are perceived to share parts of their ideology)
  2. (economics) overtaking (situation where a country or region surpasses another one in terms of GDP or GDP per capita)

Usage notes

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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.