costeggiare

Italian

Etymology

From costa + -eggiare.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ko.stedˈd͡ʒa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: co‧steg‧già‧re

Verb

costeggiàre (first-person singular present costéggio, first-person singular past historic costeggiài, past participle costeggiàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. (nautical) to hug or skirt (a coast); to coast
  2. to walk alongside
    costeggiare la scuolato walk alongside the school
  3. to be or run alongside; to line
    la strada costeggia il boscothe road runs alongside the woods
  4. (agriculture) to replow (the furrows) to flatten the edges

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