cornamusare

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French cornemuser.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kor.na.muˈza.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: cor‧na‧mu‧sà‧re

Verb

cornamusàre (first-person singular present cornamùso, first-person singular past historic cornamusài, past participle cornamusàto, auxiliary avére) (archaic)

  1. (intransitive) to bagpipe (to play the bagpipes)
  2. (intransitive) to speak ill [with a ‘of someone/something’]

Conjugation

Further reading

  • cornamusare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana