chiudere
Italian
Etymology
Inherited from Latin clūdere, variant of claudere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkju.de.re/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -udere
- Hyphenation: chiù‧de‧re
Verb
chiùdere (first-person singular present chiùdo, first-person singular past historic chiùsi, past participle chiùso, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to close, to shut
- (intransitive) to close [auxiliary avere]
- la porta non chiude bene ― the door doesn't close well
- la scuola ha chiuso ― the school closed
- (intransitive, figurative, informal) to be done (to stop any relationship or connection with) [with con ‘with someone or something’] [auxiliary avere]
Conjugation
Conjugation of chiùdere (root-stressed -ere; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms
Further reading
- chiudere in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- chiudere in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- chiudere in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- chiudere in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- chiùdere in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- chiùdere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Neapolitan
Alternative forms
- chiurere (alt. spelling)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin clūdere, variant of claudere.
Pronunciation
Verb
chiudere
Related terms
References
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 890: “chiudere a chiave” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Giacco, Giuseppe (2003) “chiudere”, in Schedario Napoletano