imbalsamare
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /im.bal.saˈma.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: im‧bal‧sa‧mà‧re
Verb
imbalsamàre (first-person singular present imbàlsamo, first-person singular past historic imbalsamài, past participle imbalsamàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to embalm
- (transitive, figurative) to keep intact, to preserve from oblivion
- (transitive, figurative) to imprison in a rigid ideology
- (transitive) to perfume, to embalm, to make fragrant or aromatic
Conjugation
Conjugation of imbalsamàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
Further reading
- imbalsamare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana