insalare
Italian
Etymology
From in- + sale (“salt”) + -are (1st conjugation verbal suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in.saˈla.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: in‧sa‧là‧re
Verb
insalàre (first-person singular present insàlo, first-person singular past historic insalài, past participle insalàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive, rare) to season with salt; to salt
- Synonym: salare
- (transitive, poetic) to cause to become salt or saline
- (transitive, figurative, archaic) to regulate wisely
Conjugation
Conjugation of insalàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
Further reading
- insalare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana