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)
- (transitive) to hoop (put hoops around a barrel, etc.)
- (transitive) to rim (a wheel)
- (transitive) to circle (a word, sentence, etc.)
- (transitive) to surround, to encircle, to ring
- (transitive, archaic) to circle, to go around (a mountain, etc.)
- (intransitive, archaic) to turn, to rotate [auxiliary avere]
Conjugation
References
- cerchiare in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
- cerchiare in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- http://tlio.ovi.cnr.it/TLIO/
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