gonfio

See also: gonfiò

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡon.fjo/
  • Rhymes: -onfjo
  • Hyphenation: gón‧fio

Etymology 1

From the short past participle of gonfiare (“to inflate”) in Tuscan; compare the Standard Italian participle gonfiato.[1]

Adjective

gonfio (feminine gonfia, masculine plural gonfi, feminine plural gonfie)

  1. swollen
  2. bombastic (person)
  3. inflated (tire)
Derived terms
Further reading
  • gonfio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • gonfio in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

gonfio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of gonfiare

References

  1. ^ Ledgeway 2016: 221

Further reading

  • Ledgeway, Adam. 2016. Italian, Tuscan, and Corsican. In Ledgeway, Adam & Maiden, Martin (eds.), The Oxford guide to the Romance languages, 206–227. Oxford: OUP.
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