staffare
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Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From staffa (“stirrup”) + -are.
Verb
[edit]staffàre (first-person singular present stàffo, first-person singular past historic staffài, past participle staffàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to connect, clamp or shore up with brackets
- (transitive, railroad) to block the movement of (a railroad/railway car) with a bracket on the tracks
- (intransitive, uncommon) to lose one's stirrups [auxiliary avere]
- (intransitive, uncommon) to take one's feet out of the stirrup or stirrups [auxiliary avere]
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of staffàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]staffàre (first-person singular present stàffo, first-person singular past historic staffài, past participle staffàto, auxiliary avére)
- (intransitive, anglicism) to recruit staff (for a company) [auxiliary avere]
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of staffàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Further reading
[edit]- staffare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
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- Italian 3-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/are
- Rhymes:Italian/are/3 syllables
- Italian terms suffixed with -are
- Italian lemmas
- Italian verbs
- Italian verbs ending in -are
- Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary
- Italian transitive verbs
- Italian intransitive verbs
- Italian terms with uncommon senses