trapasso
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /traˈpas.so/
- Rhymes: -asso
- Hyphenation: tra‧pàs‧so
Etymology 1
Deverbal from trapassare + -o.
Verb
trapasso
- first-person singular present indicative of trapassare
Noun
trapasso m (plural trapassi)
- movement from one place or condition to another; transfer
- Synonyms: passaggio, trasferimento
- legal transfer
- (by extension) clipping of trapasso di proprietà (conveyancing)
- (nautical, by extension) clipping of trapasso di bandiera (passage of a ship from one nationality to another)
- (figurative, by extension) transitory period
- l'epoca di trapasso tra la dopoguerra ed il crollo della URSS
- the transitory epoch between the postwar period and the collapse of the USSR
- (literary, figurative, by extension) passage to the afterlife; death
- Synonym: morte
Etymology 2
Noun
trapasso m (plural trapassi)
- a defective gait in which a horse trots with the forelimbs and gallops with the hindquarters
- Synonym: travalca