piluccare
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *pilūc(i)cāre, ultimately from Latin pilāre.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
piluccàre (first-person singular present pilùcco, first-person singular past historic piluccài, past participle piluccàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to pick (grapes) one by one (off a bunch, in order to eat them)
- (transitive) to pick at, to nibble (food)
- (transitive, figurative) to fleece, to cheat (someone) of their money
- (transitive, figurative, literary) to torment, to afflict (generally in a gradual, continuous process)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of piluccàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- piluccare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana