conciare

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *comptiāre, from Latin comptus. Compare Sicilian cunzari, Venetian consar, conzsar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /konˈt͡ʃa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: con‧cià‧re

Verb

conciàre (first-person singular present cóncio, first-person singular past historic conciài, past participle conciàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to tan (leather); to cure (tobacco)
  2. to adjust, to repair
  3. to ill-treat
    Synonym: maltrattare
  4. to cut (blocks from stone)
  5. to cut (gems or marble)
  6. (literary, rare) to decorate, to adorn
  7. (dialectal) to season (food)
  8. (veterinary) to castrate (calves or pigs)

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Further reading

  • conciare in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • conciare in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • conciare in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • conciare in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • conciare in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
  • conciare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin

Pronunciation

Verb

conciāre

  1. second-person singular present passive subjunctive of conciō
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