mangiare

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Borrowed from Old French mangier, from Latin mandūcāre (to chew, (coll.) eat). Doublet of manducare, manicare, and manucare.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /manˈd͡ʒa.re/[1]
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    • Rhymes: -are
    • Hyphenation: man‧già‧re

    Verb

    mangiàre (first-person singular present màngio, first-person singular past historic mangiài, past participle mangiàto, auxiliary avére)

    1. (ambitransitive) to eat [auxiliary avere]
      Synonym: (archaic, now chiefly jocular) manducare
    2. (intransitive) to tuck in, to start to eat [auxiliary avere]
    3. (intransitive, by extension) to live
      Synonyms: campare, vivere
    4. (transitive, by extension) to gnaw, to nibble, to eat away at (of insects)
      Synonyms: rodere, rosicchiare
    5. (transitive, by extension) to consume
      Synonyms: consumare, rodere
      Quella serratura è tutta mangiata dalla ruggine.That lock is completely consumed by rust.
    6. (transitive, figurative, rare) to dissipate, to squander
      Synonyms: consumare, mangiarsi
      Ha mangiato in breve tempo tutta l’eredità.She dissipated all of her inheritance in a short time.
    7. (intransitive, figurative) to graft (to obtain illegal gain from dishonest practices, especially in public life) [auxiliary avere]
    8. (transitive, figurative, card games, checkers, chess) to capture

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    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Dalmatian: mančur, manciuor, manciur
    • Esperanto: manĝi
    • Macedonian: манџа (mandža)
    • Neapolitan: mangiare, magnare

    Noun

    mangiare m (uncountable)

    1. eating
    2. (colloquial, dialectal) food, scoff
      Synonyms: cibo, nutrimento

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    Neapolitan

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Italian mangiare.

    Pronunciation

    • (Naples) IPA(key): [maɲˈd͡ʒa]

    Verb

    mangiare

    1. to eat

    Conjugation

    Noun

    mangiare m (plural [please provide])

    1. (often uncountable) food

    References

    • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1014: “mangiare; mangia” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
    • Rocco, Emmanuele (1882), “mangiare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano[1]