sporgere

Italian

Etymology

From Latin exporrigere, from ex- + porrigere. By surface analysis, s- + porgere.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈspɔr.d͡ʒe.re/, /ˈspor.d͡ʒe.re/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɔrdʒere, -ordʒere
  • Hyphenation: spòr‧ge‧re, spór‧ge‧re

Verb

spòrgere or spórgere (first-person singular present spòrgo or spórgo, first-person singular past historic spòrsi or spórsi, past participle spòrto or spórto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)

  1. (transitive) to reach out, to stick out
    sporgere la testastick out the head
  2. (intransitive) to jut out, to protrude [auxiliary essere]
    il ripiano sporge dalla parete
    the shelf protrudes from the wall
  3. (transitive, law) to file (a complaint, lawsuit, etc.)
    sporgere querelato file a legal action
    sporgere un reclamoto file a complaint

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

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

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