bastonare
Italian
Etymology
From bastone (“stick, cane”) + -are.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bas.toˈna.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: ba‧sto‧nà‧re
Verb
bastonàre (first-person singular present bastóno, first-person singular past historic bastonài, past participle bastonàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)
- to beat or thrash (with a stick, etc.)
- (informal, figurative, by extension) to maltreat
- (figurative, by extension) to defeat badly
Conjugation
Conjugation of bastonàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms
Further reading
- bastonare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana