soccorrere

Italian

Etymology

From Latin succurrere.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sokˈkor.re.re/
  • Rhymes: -orrere
  • Hyphenation: soc‧cór‧re‧re

Verb

soccórrere (first-person singular present soccórro, first-person singular past historic soccórsi, past participle soccórso, auxiliary avére or (in the literary intransitive meaning "to come to mind") èssere)

  1. (transitive) to help, to assist
  2. (intransitive, literary) to give help [with a ‘to’] [auxiliary avere]
  3. (intransitive, literary) to come to mind [auxiliary essere]

Conjugation

Further reading

  • soccorrere in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • soccorrere in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  • soccorrere in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • soccorrere in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • soccórrere in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • soccórrere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana