dispiegare

Italian

Etymology

Probably from spiegare with a change of prefix; possibly corresponds to Late Latin displicāre, infinitive form of displicō (to scatter), from Latin dis- + plicō. By surface analysis, dis- +‎ piegare (to fold).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dis.pjeˈɡa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: di‧spie‧gà‧re

Verb

dispiegàre (first-person singular present dispiègo or dispiégo[1], first-person singular past historic dispiegài, past participle dispiegàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. (literary) to stretch out, to unfold, to unfurl
  2. (military, computing) to deploy

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ dispiego in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)