Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): */ʃem.piˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: scem‧pi‧cà‧re

Verb edit

scempicàre (first-person singular present scémpico, first-person singular past historic scempicài, past participle scempicàto, auxiliary avére) (obsolete, historical, Tuscan, transitive)

  1. to pay (an installment of a payment)
    Synonym: pagare
  2. (by extension) to repay (a debt)
    Synonym: saldare

Conjugation edit

Further reading edit

  • scempicare in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • Accademia della Crusca (p. 1961), “scempicare”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana (in Italian), volume 17, page 923