Italian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Central-Southern dialectal variant of gettare (to throw), from Latin iactāre, in reference to throwing dice.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /jetˈta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: iet‧tà‧re

Verb

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iettàre (first-person singular present iètto or iétto[1], first-person singular past historic iettài, past participle iettàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to jinx

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ inietto, ieti in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

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

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