solleticare

Italian

Etymology

Probably from Vulgar Latin *subliticāre, metathesized from *subtītillicāre, from Latin tītillāre. An alternative theory is metathesis from sollicitāre.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sol.le.tiˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: sol‧le‧ti‧cà‧re

Verb

solleticàre (first-person singular present sollético or sollètico[2], first-person singular past historic solleticài, past participle solleticàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to tickle, flush
    Synonyms: fare il solletico, titillare
  2. to whet, arouse or tease
    Synonyms: invogliare, stuzzicare; see also Thesaurus:suscitare

Conjugation

References

  1. solleticare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  2. solletico in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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