saccheggiare
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From sacco + -eggiare; cognate with Piedmontese sachegé.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
saccheggiàre (first-person singular present sacchéggio, first-person singular past historic saccheggiài, past participle saccheggiàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to sack, plunder
- (transitive, figurative, by extension) to plagiarize
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of saccheggiàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: saquejar
Further reading edit
- saccheggiare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana