accampare
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ak.kamˈpa.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: ac‧cam‧pà‧re
Verb
accampàre (first-person singular present accàmpo, first-person singular past historic accampài, past participle accampàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive, military) to encamp, to gather (an army, etc.) into a camp
- early-mid 1310s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VIII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 79–81; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- Non le farà sì bella sepultura
la vipera che Melanesi accampa,
com’ avria fatto il gallo di Gallura- So fair a hatchment will not make for her the Viper which encamps the Milanese, as would have made Gallura's Rooster.
- (transitive, by extensive) to lodge (e.g. refugees) in a makeshift camp
- (transitive, figurative) to assert, advance, put forward (a proposition, etc.)
- (intransitive, literary) to stand out (in a picture, painting or other artistic work) [auxiliary avere]
- Synonym: campeggiare
- (intransitive, rare, military) to camp, to encamp [auxiliary essere]
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Further reading
- accampare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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