storpiare

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *exturpiāre, from Latin turpis (ugly).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /storˈpja.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: stor‧pià‧re

Verb

storpiàre (first-person singular present stórpio or (traditional) stòrpio[1], first-person singular past historic storpiài, past participle storpiàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to cripple, maim
    Come in tutte le cose, il troppo storpia.
    As in all things, the excess maims.
  2. (transitive, figurative) to mangle (words)
  3. (transitive, archaic) to delay, to hinder

Conjugation

References

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

Further reading

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

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