tortoreggiare
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tortoreggiàre (first-person singular present tortoréggio, first-person singular past historic tortoreggiài, past participle tortoreggiàto, auxiliary avére)
- (intransitive, rare) to bill and coo (coo and rub beaks as a prelude to mating) (of birds)
- (intransitive, figurative, literary) to bill and coo (exchange loving and affectionate behaviour/behavior)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of tortoreggiàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- tortoreggiare in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- tortoreggiare in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- tortoreggiàre in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- tortoreggiare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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- Italian terms suffixed with -eggiare
- Italian 5-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/are
- Rhymes:Italian/are/5 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian verbs
- Italian verbs ending in -are
- Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary
- Italian intransitive verbs
- Italian terms with rare senses
- Italian literary terms