rifinire
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ri.fiˈni.re/
- Rhymes: -ire
- Hyphenation: ri‧fi‧nì‧re
Verb
rifinìre (first-person singular present rifinìsco, first-person singular past historic rifinìi, past participle rifinìto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive, uncommon) to finish again
- (transitive) to finalize, to refine, to finish off, to apply finishing touches, to complete, to perfect
- (transitive, sports, soccer) to make a conclusive (pass) (that leads to the goal that wins the game)
- (transitive, Tuscany) to use up
- (transitive, Tuscany) to exhaust physically, to reduce to misery
- (transitive, Tuscany) to finish, to stop
- (intransitive, Tuscany, chiefly in the negative) to please, to satisfy [auxiliary avere]
Conjugation
Conjugation of rifinìre (-ire) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
Further reading
- rifinire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana