squadrare
Italian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *exquadrāre, derived from Latin quadrus. Compare French équerrer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skwaˈdra.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: squa‧drà‧re
Verb
squadràre (first-person singular present squàdro, first-person singular past historic squadrài, past participle squadràto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to delimit in a square or rectangular shape
- (transitive, by extension) to look, eye
- Synonym: scrutare
- (transitive, literary, by extension) to show
- Synonyms: mostrare, presentare
- (transitive, archaic, poetic, rare) to break, break up
- Synonym: spezzare
- (intransitive) to square, to be perfectly perpendicular [auxiliary avere]
Conjugation
Conjugation of squadràre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms
Further reading
- squadrare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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