mucciare

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *muciāre, of Gaulish origin, from Proto-Celtic *mūk- (“to hide, stifle”), perhaps Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewk- (“to release, let loose, slip away”) or *(s)mewgʰ- (“to conceal”).[1] Also compare Irish múchadh (“covering, smothering, stifling”), Proto-Germanic *mūk- (“to waylay”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mutˈt͡ʃa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: muc‧cià‧re

Verb

mucciàre (first-person singular present mùccio, first-person singular past historic mucciài, past participle mucciàto, auxiliary (intransitive) èssere or (transitive) avére) (obsolete or regional)

  1. (intransitive) to escape, to slip away, to slip through someone's fingers [auxiliary essere]
    Synonym: fuggire
  2. (transitive) to avoid, to dodge
    Synonym: evitare

Conjugation

    Conjugation of mucciàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive mucciàre
auxiliary verb èssere1, avére2 gerund mucciàndo
present participle mucciànte past participle mucciàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present mùccio mùcci mùccia mucciàmo mucciàte mùcciano
imperfect mucciàvo mucciàvi mucciàva mucciavàmo mucciavàte mucciàvano
past historic mucciài mucciàsti mucciò mucciàmmo mucciàste mucciàrono
future muccerò muccerài muccerà muccerémo mucceréte muccerànno
conditional muccerèi muccerésti muccerèbbe, muccerébbe muccerémmo mucceréste muccerèbbero, muccerébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present mùcci mùcci mùcci mucciàmo mucciàte mùccino
imperfect mucciàssi mucciàssi mucciàsse mucciàssimo mucciàste mucciàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
mùccia mùcci mucciàmo mucciàte mùccino
negative imperative non mucciàre non mùcci non mucciàmo non mucciàte non mùccino

1Intransitive.
2Transitive.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “mooch”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Further reading

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