accattare

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ak.katˈta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ac‧cat‧tà‧re

Verb

accattàre (first-person singular present accàtto, first-person singular past historic accattài, past participle accattàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (intransitive) to beg (for money, food, etc.)
    Synonyms: mendicare, elemosinare, pitoccare, questuare
  2. (transitive) to beg for
  3. (transitive, derogatory) to go looking for
    Synonym: cercare
    accattare idee altrui ― to look for other people's ideas
    accattare scuse ― to look for excuses
  4. (transitive) to scrounge or cadge
  5. (transitive, archaic, regional) to buy
    Synonym: comprare
  6. (transitive, archaic, regional) to find, to obtain, to receive, to accrue
    Synonyms: trovare, ottenere, ricevere
  7. (transitive, archaic) to force a loan on (typically in reference to the state)
    Synonyms: trovare, ottenere, ricevere

Conjugation
    Conjugation of accattàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive accattàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund accattàndo
present participle accattànte past participle accattàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present accàtto accàtti accàtta accattiàmo accattàte accàttano
imperfect accattàvo accattàvi accattàva accattavàmo accattavàte accattàvano
past historic accattài accattàsti accattò accattàmmo accattàste accattàrono
future accatterò accatterài accatterà accatterémo accatteréte accatterànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present accatterèi accatterésti accatterèbbe, accatterébbe accatterémmo accatteréste accatterèbbero, accatterébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present accàtti accàtti accàtti accattiàmo accattiàte accàttino
imperfect accattàssi accattàssi accattàsse accattàssimo accattàste accattàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
accàtta accàtti accattiàmo accattàte accàttino
negative imperative non accattàre non accàtti non accattiàmo non accattàte non accàttino

Anagrams

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *accaptāre.

Pronunciation
  • (Naples) IPA(key): [akkatˈta]
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Verb

accattare

  1. to buy
    M'aggio 'a accattà nu tavuto. - I need to buy myself a coffin.

References
  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 822: “vo a comprare” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “accattare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano

Sardinian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *accaptāre (“accept, purchase”).

Verb

accattare (Logudorese)

  1. (archaic) gain, amass
  2. (archaic) purchase
  3. find

References
  • Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “akkattare”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

Tarantino

Verb

accattare

  1. to buy or purchase

Conjugation
    Conjugation of accattare (first conjugation)
infinitive accattare
gerund accattànne past participle accattáte
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative ije tu jidde / jèdde nuje vuje lóre
present accatte accatte accatte accattáme accattáte accattene
imperfect accattáve accattáve accattáve accattámme accattáveve, accattávve accattávene
perfect accattéve accattàste accattóje accattàmme accattàste accattàrene
subjunctive cu ije cu tu cu jidde / cu jèdde cu nuje cu vuje cu lóre
present accatte accatte accatte accattáme accattáte accattene
imperfect accattàsse accattàsse accattàsse accattàmme accattàste accattàssere
imperative – tu jidde / jèdde nuje vuje lóre
— accatte accatt? accattàme accattàte accatt?
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