accorciare
Italian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *adcurtiāre, from Latin curtus. Compare Sicilian accurzari.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
accorciàre (first-person singular present accórcio, first-person singular past historic accorciài, past participle accorciàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)
- (transitive) to shorten; to abridge; to abbreviate
- (intransitive) to become shorter [auxiliary essere]
- (intransitive, figurative) to weaken, to become weaker [auxiliary essere]
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of accorciàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Transitive.
2Intransitive.
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- accorciare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana