blatero

See also: blaterò

Italian

Verb

blatero

  1. first-person singular present indicative of blaterare

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From an earlier *blat(t)elāre, from blatiō + -lāre.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

blaterō (present infinitive blaterāre, perfect active blaterāvī, supine blaterātum); first conjugation, no passive

  1. to babble, gibber, speak foolishly or in an animalistic manner
  2. (of a frog) to croak
  3. (of a ram) to bleat

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • French: blatérer
  • Italian: blaterare
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: braadar
  • Portuguese: blaterar

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “balbus (> Derivatives > blat(t)erāre)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 68

Further reading

  • blatero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • blatero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • blatero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.