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)
- (transitive) to help, to assist
- (intransitive, literary) to give help [with a ‘to’] [auxiliary avere]
- (intransitive, literary) to come to mind [auxiliary essere]
Conjugation
Conjugation of soccórrere (root-stressed -ere; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1In the literary intransitive meaning "to come to mind".
Related terms
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