iettare

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Central-Southern dialectal variant of gettare (to throw), from Latin iactāre, in reference to throwing dice.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jetˈta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: iet‧tà‧re

Verb

iettàre (first-person singular present iètto or iétto[1], first-person singular past historic iettài, past participle iettàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to jinx

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. inietto, ieti in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

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

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