abbicare

Italian

Etymology

From a- (to, towards) +‎ bica (haystack) +‎ -are (1st-conjugation verbal suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ab.biˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ab‧bi‧cà‧re

Verb

abbicàre (first-person singular present abbìco, first-person singular past historic abbicài, past participle abbicàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to collect in heaps
  2. (by extension, transitive) to amass

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

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