accaffare
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ak.kafˈfa.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: ac‧caf‧fà‧re
Verb
accaffàre (first-person singular present accàffo, first-person singular past historic accaffài, past participle accaffàto, auxiliary avére)
- (obsolete) to seize, to pilfer
- 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXI”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 52–54; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- Poi l’addentar con più di cento raffi,
disser: «Coverto convien che qui balli,
sì che, se puoi, nascosamente accaffi».- They seized him then with more than a hundred rakes; they said: "It here behoves you to dance covered, that, if you can, you secretly may pilfer."
Conjugation
Conjugation of accaffàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Further reading
- accaffare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana