atterrare
Italian
Etymology
From a- + terra + -are. Sense 3 "to land (of an aircraft, ship, etc.)" is a calque of French atterrer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /at.terˈra.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: at‧ter‧rà‧re
Verb
atterràre (first-person singular present attèrro, first-person singular past historic atterrài, past participle atterràto, auxiliary (transitive or intransitive) avére or (rarely when intransitive, as an alternative) èssere)
- (transitive) to knock down, to throw down
- (transitive, figurative) to humiliate, to mortify
- (intransitive) to land (of an aircraft, ship, spaceship, etc.) [auxiliary avere or (rarely) essere]
- (intransitive) to land (of a gymnast or skier) [auxiliary avere or essere]
Conjugation
1Transitive or intransitive.
2Rarely when intransitive, as an alternative.
Derived terms
- atterraggio
- allunare (“to land on the Moon”)
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