accapponare
Italian
Alternative forms
- accapponire
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ak.kap.poˈna.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: ac‧cap‧po‧nà‧re
Verb
accapponàre (first-person singular present accappóno, first-person singular past historic accapponài, past participle accapponàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to caponize, to castrate (a cockerel)
- Synonym: capponare
- (transitive) to remove the ovary from (a hen) (to cause rapid fattening)
- (intransitive) to get goosebumps/goosepimples
- (intransitive) to crawl, to get the creeps (of one's skin, etc.)
- (transitive, nautical) to cat (hoist an anchor onto the cathead)
- Synonym: caponare
Conjugation
Etymology 2
From a- + cappone + -are, from a variant of capone (“large tackle for hoisting the anchor”).
Verb
accapponàre (first-person singular present accappóno, first-person singular past historic accapponài, past participle accapponàto, auxiliary avére)
Conjugation
Further reading
- accapponare in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- accapponare in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- accapponàre1 in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- accapponàre2 in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- accapponare in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
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