-icchiare

Italian

Etymology

From Latin -iculāre.

Suffix

-icchiàre (verb-forming suffix, first-person singular present -ìcchio, first-person singular past historic -icchiài, past participle -icchiàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. used to derive verbs with a frequentative connotation
    bere (to drink) + -icchiarebevicchiare (to drink often or excessively)
  2. used to derive verbs with a diminutive connotation
    dormire (to sleep) + -icchiaredormicchiare (to doze)
    campare (to live, to get by) + -icchiarecampicchiare (to scrape by, to barely get by)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Italian terms suffixed with -icchiare

Further reading

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

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