Italian edit

Etymology edit

From ri- +‎ passare.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ri.pasˈsa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ri‧pas‧sà‧re

Verb edit

ripassàre (first-person singular present ripàsso, first-person singular past historic ripassài, past participle ripassàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)

  1. (transitive) to pass or cross again
  2. (transitive) to pass (something) (through something else) again
  3. (transitive) to pass, to hand again
  4. (transitive) to revise, to review
  5. (transitive) to trace over (a drawing)
  6. (transitive, figurative) to retrace in the mind
  7. (transitive, figurative, informal) to scold harshly
  8. (transitive, cooking) to put (something) back (in a pot, pan, etc.) to cook
  9. (intransitive) to come back, to visit again [auxiliary essere]
  10. (intransitive) to backtrack [auxiliary essere]
  11. (transitive, vulgar, slang) to have sex

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Further reading edit

  • ripassare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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