valicare
Italian
Alternative forms
- valcare (archaic or poetic)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin vāricāre, from vāricus. Cf. also the doublet varcare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va.liˈka.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: va‧li‧cà‧re
Verb
valicàre (first-person singular present vàlico, first-person singular past historic valicài, past participle valicàto, auxiliary avére)
- to cross (a river, a border, a range of mountains, etc.)
- (literary, figurative) to overcome, to surmount
- (archaic) to pass by
- (archaic) to transgress
Conjugation
Conjugation of valicàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
Further reading
- valicare1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- valicare in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa