Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin quassāre (to shake, quake), intensive of quatiō (to shake, agitate).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kwasˈsa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: quas‧sà‧re

Verb

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  This Italian verb needs to be reviewed and cleaned up.
The definition(s) may be wrong or misleading, and important senses may be missing. The specified auxiliary may also be wrong. The remainder of the conjugation is probably correct for -are verbs but may be wrong in some particulars for -ire verbs (especially the present participle).

quassàre (first-person singular present quàsso, first-person singular past historic quassài, past participle quassàto, auxiliary avére) (literary)

  1. (transitive) to shake, agitate
    Synonyms: scrollare, scuotere, squassare

Conjugation

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Further reading

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

Latin

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Verb

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quassāre

  1. inflection of quassō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative