trapasso
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Deverbal from trapassare + -o.
Verb edit
trapasso
Noun edit
trapasso m (plural trapassi)
- movement from one place or condition to another; transfer
- Synonyms: passaggio, trasferimento
- legal transfer
- (by extension) Clipping of trapasso di proprietà. (conveyancing)
- (nautical, by extension) Clipping of trapasso di bandiera. (passage of a ship from one nationality to another)
- (figurative, by extension) transitory period
- l'epoca di trapasso tra la dopoguerra ed il crollo della URSS
- the transitory epoch between the postwar period and the collapse of the USSR
- (literary, figurative, by extension) passage to the afterlife; death
- Synonym: morte
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
trapasso m (plural trapassi)
- a defective gait in which a horse trots with the forelimbs and gallops with the hindquarters
- Synonym: travalca