incagliare

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish encallar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in.kaʎˈʎa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: in‧ca‧glià‧re

Verb

incagliàre (first-person singular present incàglio, first-person singular past historic incagliài, past participle incagliàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)

  1. (transitive) to hinder, to obstruct
  2. (intransitive, nautical) to run aground [auxiliary essere]
  3. (intransitive, figurative) to stop, to jam, to get stuck (of work, a discussion, etc.) [auxiliary essere]

Conjugation

Further reading

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

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