accaffare

Italian

Etymology

From a- + caffo + -are.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ak.kafˈfa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ac‧caf‧fà‧re

Verb

accaffàre (first-person singular present accàffo, first-person singular past historic accaffài, past participle accaffàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (obsolete) to seize, to pilfer
    Synonyms: arraffare, ghermire
    • mid 1300smid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXI”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 52–54; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Poi l’addentar con più di cento raffi,
      disser: «Coverto convien che qui balli,
      sì che, se puoi, nascosamente accaffi».
      They seized him then with more than a hundred rakes; they said: "It here behoves you to dance covered, that, if you can, you secretly may pilfer."

Conjugation

Further reading

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

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