iettare

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Central-Southern dialectal variant of gettare (to throw), from Latin iactāre, in reference to throwing dice.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jetˈta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: iet‧tà‧re

Verb

iettàre (first-person singular present iètto or iétto[1], first-person singular past historic iettài, past participle iettàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to jinx

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

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

Further reading

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

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