ingombrare
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Either:
- From an Old French word, making it cognate with the modern encombrer (“to clutter”).[1]
- Or, from Italian ingombro (“encumbrance”) + -are.[2]
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
ingombràre (first-person singular present ingómbro, first-person singular past historic ingombrài, past participle ingombràto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to block, obstruct
- (transitive) to clutter
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of ingombràre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms edit
References edit
- ^ Dizionario italiano da un affiliato di Oxford University Press. Mondadori Education S.p.A. (on Mac OSX Mavericks)
- ^ Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “ingombro”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati