sclerotizzare

Italian

Etymology

From sclerotico +‎ -izzare.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skle.ro.tidˈd͡za.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: scle‧ro‧tiz‧zà‧re

Verb

sclerotizzàre (first-person singular present sclerotìzzo, first-person singular past historic sclerotizzài, past participle sclerotizzàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, medicine) to sclerotize
  2. (transitive, figurative) to stiffen, to make rigid and nonfunctional (e.g. an economy)

Conjugation

Further reading

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

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