scipare

Italian

Etymology

From Latin dissipāre or Latin *exsipāre. See also sciupare.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): */ʃiˈpa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: sci‧pà‧re

Verb

scipàre (first-person singular present scìpo, first-person singular past historic scipài, past participle scipàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (archaic) to waste, spoil
  2. (archaic, figurative) to disturb, to unsettle
    • 1321, Dante, “Inferno, XXIV”, in Divina Commedia:
      e vidivi entro terribile stipa / di serpenti, e di sì diversa mena / che la memoria il sangue ancor mi scipa.
      and there within I saw a dreadful swarm / of serpents so extravagant in form— / remembering them still drains my blood [disturbs me] from me. (by Allen Mandelbaum, 1980-82

Conjugation

See also

Further reading

  • scipare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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