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)
- (transitive) to put to bed
- (transitive) to lay down
- (transitive) (with di botte or di mazzate) to beat someone to a pulp
Conjugation
Conjugation of coricàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms
References
- ^ corico in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading
- coricare in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore