rifinire

Italian

Etymology

From ri- + finire.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ri.fiˈni.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: ri‧fi‧nì‧re

Verb

rifinìre (first-person singular present rifinìsco, first-person singular past historic rifinìi, past participle rifinìto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, uncommon) to finish again
  2. (transitive) to finalize, to refine, to finish off, to apply finishing touches, to complete, to perfect
  3. (transitive, sports, soccer) to make a conclusive (pass) (that leads to the goal that wins the game)
  4. (transitive, Tuscany) to use up
  5. (transitive, Tuscany) to exhaust physically, to reduce to misery
  6. (transitive, Tuscany) to finish, to stop
  7. (intransitive, Tuscany, chiefly in the negative) to please, to satisfy [auxiliary avere]

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

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

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