impancarsi

Italian

Etymology

From impancare +‎ -si.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /im.panˈkar.si/
  • Rhymes: -arsi
  • Hyphenation: im‧pan‧càr‧si

Verb

impancàrsi (first-person singular present mi impànco, first-person singular past historic mi impancài, past participle impancàtosi)

  1. reflexive of impancare
  2. to take on presumptuous attitudes; to pedantically or fastidiously judge or nitpick [with a ‘as a judge, critic, professor, etc.’]
    impancarsi a maestro di vita e di morale
    to act like a master of life and morality
  3. (intransitive, archaic) to sit on a bench or table

Conjugation

Further reading

  • impancarsi in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • impancarsi in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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