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)
- to tickle, flush
- to whet, arouse or tease
- Synonyms: invogliare, stuzzicare; see also Thesaurus:suscitare
Conjugation
Conjugation of solleticàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms
References
- solleticare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- solletico in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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