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)

  1. (transitive) to bait (fish, birds)
  2. (transitive) to lure, to entice
  3. (transitive) to hook, to solicit (a john) (in reference to prostitution)
  4. (transitive, botany) to attract (insects) (of a flower, etc.)
  5. (transitive) to prime (a pump)
  6. (transitive) to strike (an electric arc)

Conjugation

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Latin

Verb

adēscāre

  1. inflection of adēscō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative