infrollire

Italian

Etymology

From in- + frollo + -ire.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in.frolˈli.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: in‧frol‧lì‧re

Verb

infrollìre (first-person singular present infrollìsco, first-person singular past historic infrollìi, past participle infrollìto, auxiliary (intransitive) èssere or (transitive) avére)

  1. (intransitive) to age, to become aged (of meat) [auxiliary essere]
  2. (intransitive) to become macerated, to become softened in water [auxiliary essere]
  3. (intransitive, figurative) to age, to become feeble (physically or mentally; of people) [auxiliary essere]
  4. (intransitive, figurative) to become spoiled, to become constitutionally lazy or soft (of people) [auxiliary essere]
  5. (transitive) to age (meat)
  6. (transitive, figurative) to age, to make (someone) feeble (physically or mentally)
  7. (transitive, figurative) to make (someone) spoiled or constitutionally lazy or soft

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

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