Italian edit

Etymology edit

From di- +‎ rupe,[1] possibly corresponding to a Vulgar Latin *derupāre, from Latin rupes.[2][3] Cf. also Portuguese and Galician derrubar, Sicilian sdirrupari.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /di.ruˈpa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: di‧ru‧pà‧re

Verb edit

dirupàre (first-person singular present dirùpo, first-person singular past historic dirupài, past participle dirupàto, auxiliary (intransitive) èssere or (transitive) avére)

  1. (intransitive) to fall headlong [auxiliary essere]
  2. (transitive, archaic) to throw down a cliff

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References edit

  1. ^ dirupare in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
  2. ^ Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “dirupare”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
  3. ^ http://tlio.ovi.cnr.it/TLIO/

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