procombere
Italian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editSemi-learned borrowing from Classical Latin prōcumbere (“to fall forward; to sink down; to prostrate oneself”), derived from an unattested *cumbō (“I lie down, recline”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editprocómbere (first-person singular present procómbo, first-person singular past historic procombétti or (traditional) procombètti, no past participle) (intransitive, literary)
- to fall forward
- (figurative) to be overwhelmed
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of procómbere (root-stressed -ere; defective) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Traditional.
References
edit- procombere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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