embricare

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin imbricāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /em.briˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: em‧bri‧cà‧re

Verb

embricàre (first-person singular present émbrico or èmbrico[1], first-person singular past historic embricài, past participle embricàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to cover with roof tiles
  2. (figurative) to overlap in the manner of roof tiles

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

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

Further reading

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