fallire

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *fallīre, from Latin fallere.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /falˈli.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: fal‧lì‧re

Verb

fallìre (first-person singular present fallìsco, first-person singular past historic fallìi, past participle fallìto, auxiliary avére or (in the meanings "to fail, to flop, to go bankrupt") èssere)

  1. (transitive) to miss, to not hit (a target, a ball, etc.) [auxiliary avere]
  2. (intransitive) to fail [auxiliary essere]
  3. (intransitive) to go bankrupt [auxiliary essere]
  4. (intransitive) to flop [auxiliary essere]
  5. (intransitive, archaic) to make a mistake [auxiliary avere]

Conjugation

Descendants

  • German: fallieren
  • ? Maltese: falla

Further reading

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