coricare

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin collocāre (set in place). The more conservative variant colcare led to corcare through the widespread rhotacism of preconsonantal /l/. The epenthetic /i/ may have been inserted by analogy with the similar-sounding caricare ~ carcare (to load, stow). Doublet of collocare, which was borrowed from Latin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ko.riˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: co‧ri‧cà‧re

Verb

coricàre (first-person singular present còrico or córico[1], first-person singular past historic coricài, past participle coricàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to put to bed
  2. (transitive) to lay down
  3. (transitive) (with di botte or di mazzate) to beat someone to a pulp
    Synonyms: gonfiare, spaccare

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ corico in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

  • coricare in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore

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