adescare
Italian
Etymology
From Latin adēscāre (“to feed, fatten”), from ad + ēsca (“food”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.desˈka.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: a‧de‧scà‧re
Verb
adescàre (first-person singular present adésco, first-person singular past historic adescài, past participle adescàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to bait (fish, birds)
- (transitive) to lure, to entice
- (transitive) to hook, to solicit (a john) (in reference to prostitution)
- (transitive, botany) to attract (insects) (of a flower, etc.)
- (transitive) to prime (a pump)
- (transitive) to strike (an electric arc)
Conjugation
Conjugation of adescàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms
- adescabile
- adescamento
- adescatore
- adescatrice
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
adēscāre
- inflection of adēscō:
- present active infinitive
- second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative