mangiare

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old French mangier, from Latin mandūcāre (to chew, (coll.) eat). Doublet of manducare, manicare, and manucare.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /manˈd͡ʒa.re/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: man‧già‧re

Verb

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mangiàre (first-person singular present màngio, first-person singular past historic mangiài, past participle mangiàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to eat [auxiliary avere]
    Synonym: (archaic, now chiefly jocular) manducare
  2. (intransitive) to tuck in, to start to eat [auxiliary avere]
  3. (intransitive, by extension) to live
    Synonyms: campare, vivere
  4. (transitive, by extension) to gnaw, to nibble, to eat away at (of insects)
    Synonyms: rodere, rosicchiare
  5. (transitive, by extension) to consume
    Synonyms: consumare, rodere
    Quella serratura è tutta mangiata dalla ruggine.That lock is completely consumed by rust.
  6. (transitive, figurative, rare) to dissipate, to squander
    Synonyms: consumare, mangiarsi
    Ha mangiato in breve tempo tutta l’eredità.She dissipated all of her inheritance in a short time.
  7. (intransitive, figurative) to graft (to obtain illegal gain from dishonest practices, especially in public life) [auxiliary avere]
  8. (transitive, figurative, card games, checkers, chess) to capture

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Noun

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mangiare m (uncountable)

  1. eating
  2. (colloquial, dialectal) food, scoff
    Synonyms: cibo, nutrimento

See also

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Further reading

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  • mangiare1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • mangiare2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Neapolitan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian mangiare.

Pronunciation

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  • (Naples) IPA(key): [maɲˈd͡ʒa]

Verb

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mangiare

  1. to eat

Conjugation

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Noun

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mangiare m (plural [please provide])

  1. (often uncountable) food

References

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  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1014: “mangiare; mangia” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “mangiare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano