saccheggiare
Italian
Etymology
From sacco + -eggiare; cognate with Piedmontese sachegé.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sak.kedˈd͡ʒa.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: sac‧cheg‧già‧re
Verb
saccheggiàre (first-person singular present sacchéggio, first-person singular past historic saccheggiài, past participle saccheggiàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to sack, plunder
- (transitive, figurative, by extension) to plagiarize
Conjugation
Synonyms
- depredare
- rubare
- fare tabula rasa
- fare man bassa
- prendere a piene mani
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Catalan: saquejar
Further reading
- saccheggiare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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