ingannare

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin or Late Latin ingannāre (attested in a gloss), from Latin ganniō. Compare Spanish engañar, Portuguese enganar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in.ɡanˈna.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: in‧gan‧nà‧re

Verb

ingannàre (first-person singular present ingànno, first-person singular past historic ingannài, past participle ingannàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to deceive, take in, mislead, hoodwink
  2. to cheat, swindle
    Synonym: truffare
  3. to betray
    Synonym: deludere
  4. to guile, beguile

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

  • ingannare in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • ingannare in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • ingannare in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • ingannàre in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • ingannare in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
  • ingannare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin

Pronunciation

Verb

ingannāre

  1. present active infinitive of ingannō
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