cerchiare

Italian

Etymology

From cerchio + -are, or from a Vulgar Latin *circlāre < Late Latin circulāre, from Latin circulārī,[1][2][3] and therefore doublet of the borrowing circolare. Compare French cercler.

Verb

cerchiàre (first-person singular present cérchio, first-person singular past historic cerchiài, past participle cerchiàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to hoop (put hoops around a barrel, etc.)
  2. (transitive) to rim (a wheel)
  3. (transitive) to circle (a word, sentence, etc.)
  4. (transitive) to surround, to encircle, to ring
  5. (transitive, archaic) to circle, to go around (a mountain, etc.)
  6. (intransitive, archaic) to turn, to rotate [auxiliary avere]

Conjugation

References

  1. cerchiare in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
  2. cerchiare in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  3. http://tlio.ovi.cnr.it/TLIO/

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