cerchiare
Italian
Etymology
From cerchio[1] + -are, or alternatively from a Vulgar Latin *circlāre < Late Latin circulāre, from Latin circulārī,[2][3][4] and therefore doublet of the borrowing circolare. Compare French cercler.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃerˈkja.re/[3]
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: cer‧chià‧re
Verb
cerchiàre (first-person singular present cérchio, first-person singular past historic cerchiài, past participle cerchiàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to hoop (put hoops around a barrel, etc.)
- (transitive) to rim (a wheel)
- (transitive) to circle (a word, sentence, etc.)
- (transitive) to surround, to encircle, to ring
- (transitive, archaic) to circle, to go around (a mountain, etc.)
- (intransitive, archaic) to turn, to rotate [auxiliary avere]
Conjugation
Conjugation of cerchiàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms
References
- ^ cerchiare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- ^ cerchiare in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 cerchiare in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- ^ “cerchiare”, in TLIO – Tesoro della lingua italiana delle origini
Further reading
- cerchiare in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2025