manducare

See also: manducaré

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin mandūcāre (to chew, (coll.) eat). Doublet of mangiare, manicare, and manucare.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /man.duˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: man‧du‧cà‧re

Verb

manducàre (first-person singular present mandùco, first-person singular past historic manducài, past participle manducàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, archaic, now chiefly humorous) to eat
    Synonyms: mangiare, (obsolete, rare) manicare, (obsolete) manucare

Conjugation

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

mandūcāre

  1. inflection of mandūcō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

Spanish

Verb

manducare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of manducar
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