scioccare
Italian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): */ʃokˈka.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: scioc‧cà‧re
Verb
scioccàre (first-person singular present sciòcco, first-person singular past historic scioccài, past participle scioccàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to shock (emotionally)
Conjugation
Conjugation of scioccàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms
Anagrams
Neapolitan
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *floccāre, from Latin floccus (“tuft”). By surface analysis, sciuocco + -are. Compare Italian fioccare.
Pronunciation
- (Naples) IPA(key): [ʃokˈka]
Verb
scioccare
References
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 377: “nevica; nevicare” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “scioccare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano[1]