accanito
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ak.kaˈni.to/
- Rhymes: -ito
- Hyphenation: ac‧ca‧nì‧to
Adjective
accanito (feminine accanita, masculine plural accaniti, feminine plural accanite)
- fierce, keen, cutthroat
- Synonyms: implacabile, furioso, spietato, rabbioso, arrabbiato
- Antonym: mite
- dopo accaniti sforzi
- after fierce efforts
- fierce, assiduous, dogged (person)
- inveterate
- un fumatore accanito ― an inveterate smoker
- constant and loud (of noise or rain)
- Synonyms: assiduo, costante, insistente
Derived terms
Participle
accanito (feminine accanita, masculine plural accaniti, feminine plural accanite)
- past participle of accanire
Further reading
- accanito in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /akˈka.ni.toː/, [äkˈkänɪt̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /akˈka.ni.to/, [äkˈkäːnit̪o]
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