vacuare

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vacuāre (to empty, clear), derived from vacuus (empty, void).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vaˈkwa.re/, (traditional) /va.kuˈa.re/[1]
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: va‧cuà‧re, (traditional) va‧cu‧à‧re

Verb

vacuàre (first-person singular present vàcuo, first-person singular past historic vacuài, past participle vacuàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (literary or archaic, transitive) to empty

Conjugation

References

  1. vacuo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

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