accorciare
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Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Vulgar Latin *adcurtiāre, from Latin curtus. Compare Sicilian accurzari.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]accorciàre (first-person singular present accórcio, first-person singular past historic accorciài, past participle accorciàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)
- (transitive) to shorten; to abridge; to abbreviate
- (intransitive) to become shorter [auxiliary essere]
- (intransitive, figurative) to weaken, to become weaker [auxiliary essere]
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of accorciàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Transitive.
2Intransitive.
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- accorciare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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- Italian terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Italian terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian 4-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Rhymes:Italian/are
- Rhymes:Italian/are/4 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian verbs
- Italian verbs ending in -are
- Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary
- Italian verbs taking essere as auxiliary
- Italian transitive verbs
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