accattare

From a merger of Vulgar Latin *accaptāre (“to take, accept”), *accattāre (“to watch, heed”) and *accapitāre (“to grab, catch”).

• IPA^(key): /ak.katˈta.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: ac‧cat‧tà‧re

accattàre (first-person singular present accàtto, first-person singular past historic accattài, past participle accattàto, auxiliary avére)

1. (intransitive) to beg (for money, food, etc.)

   Synonyms: mendicare, elemosinare, pitoccare, questuare

2. (transitive) to beg for
3. (transitive, derogatory) to go looking for

   Synonym: cercare

   accattare idee altrui ― to look for other people's ideas

   accattare scuse ― to look for excuses

4. (transitive) to scrounge or cadge
5. (transitive, archaic, regional) to buy

   Synonym: comprare

6. (transitive, archaic, regional) to find, to obtain, to receive, to accrue

   Synonyms: trovare, ottenere, ricevere

7. (transitive, archaic) to force a loan on (typically in reference to the state)

   Synonyms: trovare, ottenere, ricevere

• accatterà, accertata, attaccare

• accattà (alt. spelling)

From Vulgar Latin *accaptāre.

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [akkatˈta]

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accattare

1. to buy

   M'aggio 'a accattà nu tavuto. - I need to buy myself a coffin.

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 822: “vo a comprare” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “accattare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano‎^[1]

• agattai (Campidanese)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *accaptāre (“accept, purchase”).

accattare (Logudorese)

1. (archaic) gain, amass
2. (archaic) purchase
3. find

• Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “akkattare”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

accattare

1. to buy or purchase