lampeggiare
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From lampo (“flash”) + -eggiare.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
lampeggiàre (first-person singular present lampéggio, first-person singular past historic lampeggiài, past participle lampeggiàto, auxiliary avére or (alternatively when impersonal) èssere)
- (intransitive) to flash [auxiliary avere]
- (intransitive) to blink (to flash on and off at regular intervals; to flash headlights on a car) [auxiliary avere]
- Perché quella luce sta lampeggiando?
- Why is that light blinking?
- (intransitive, figurative) to flash, to appear suddenly like a flash [auxiliary avere]
- (impersonal, weather) (for there) to be lightning [auxiliary essere or avere]
- Ha lampeggiato tutta la notte.
- There was lightning all night.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of lampeggiàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Alternatively when impersonal.