dipanare

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *dēpānāre, from Latin pānus (thread wound upon the bobbin), from Ancient Greek πῆνος (pênos). Compare Spanish devanar, Portuguese dobar, Catalan debanar, Sardinian demanare, Romanian depăna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /di.paˈna.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: di‧pa‧nà‧re

Verb

dipanàre (first-person singular present dipàno, first-person singular past historic dipanài, past participle dipanàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to wind (a skein) into a ball
    Synonyms: addipanare, sbrogliare, sdipanare, svolgere
    Antonym: ammatassare
    Near-synonyms: aggomitolare, raggomitolare
  2. (transitive, also figurative) to unravel, to disentangle (a skein, a case)
    Synonyms: chiarire, districare, risolvere, sbrogliare, sdipanare
    Antonyms: aggrovigliare, confondere
    dipanare la matassato unravel the mystery (literally, “to unravel the skein”)

Conjugation

Further reading

  • dipanare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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