Italian

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Etymology

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From ri- +‎ passare.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ri.pasˈsa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ri‧pas‧sà‧re

Verb

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ripassàre (first-person singular present ripàsso, first-person singular past historic ripassài, past participle ripassàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)

  1. (transitive) to pass or cross again
  2. (transitive) to pass (something) (through something else) again
  3. (transitive) to pass, to hand again
  4. (transitive) to revise, to review
  5. (transitive) to trace over (a drawing)
  6. (transitive, figurative) to retrace in the mind
  7. (transitive, figurative, informal) to scold harshly
  8. (transitive, cooking) to put (something) back (in a pot, pan, etc.) to cook
  9. (intransitive) to come back, to visit again [auxiliary essere]
  10. (intransitive) to backtrack [auxiliary essere]
  11. (transitive, vulgar, slang) to have sex

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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

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