spuntare

• IPA^(key): /spunˈta.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: spun‧tà‧re

From s- +‎ punta +‎ -are.

spuntàre (first-person singular present spùnto, first-person singular past historic spuntài, past participle spuntàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)

1. (transitive) to break (the point of a pencil, etc.)
2. (transitive) to trim or snip (a beard, etc.)
3. (transitive) to tick off (names in a register)
4. (transitive) to fetch (a good price)
5. (transitive) to grow (teeth)
6. (intransitive) to emerge, to appear, to come out, to pop up, to stick out [auxiliary essere]

   Sto aspettando quando ad un tratto ti vedrò spuntare in lontananza.

   I am waiting that moment, when I'll see you suddenly appearing on the horizon.

   (L'appuntamento, Ornella Vanoni)

7. (intransitive) to sprout [auxiliary essere]
8. (intransitive) to rise (of the sun) [auxiliary essere]
9. (intransitive) to break (of the dawn) [auxiliary essere]

• spuntarsi

spuntare m (plural spuntari)

1. rise (of the sun, etc.)

From s- +‎ punto +‎ -are, on the model of appuntare.

spuntàre (first-person singular present spùnto, first-person singular past historic spuntài, past participle spuntàto, auxiliary avére)

1. (transitive) to check off (an item with a pen)

From appuntare, with replacement of the prefix by s-.

spuntàre (first-person singular present spùnto, first-person singular past historic spuntài, past participle spuntàto, auxiliary avére)

1. (transitive) to unpin, to unclip, to unstitch

• presunta, ruspante, spunterà, trapunse