somigliare
Italian
Alternative forms
- simigliare (literary)
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *similiāre, a verb derived from Latin similis (“similar”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /so.miʎˈʎa.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: so‧mi‧glià‧re
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Verb
somigliàre (first-person singular present somìglio, first-person singular past historic somigliài, past participle somigliàto, auxiliary (transitive or intransitive) avére or (intransitive only) èssere)
- (intransitive) to resemble, look like [with a] [auxiliary essere or avere]
- La bambina somiglia a sua madre. ― The girl resembles her mother.
- (transitive) to resemble
- (transitive, literary) to compare
Conjugation
Conjugation of somigliàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Transitive or intransitive.
2Intransitive only.
Related terms
References
- somigliare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana