serrato

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /serˈra.to/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: ser‧rà‧to

Participle

serrato (feminine serrata, masculine plural serrati, feminine plural serrate)

1. past participle of serrare

Adjective

serrato (feminine serrata, masculine plural serrati, feminine plural serrate, superlative serratissimo)

1. closed or shut tightly
2. fast, quick, rapid
3. clenched (teeth)
4. (figurative) concise

   stile serrato ― concise (writing) style

5. persuasive, cogent

   un raggionamento serrato ― persuasive reasoning

6. (zoology) of a horse that lacks perpendicularity and has a front limb bent inwards

Related terms

• serratamente

Anagrams

• Astorre, arresto, arrestò, asterrò, orraste, sartore, starerò, terrosa

Latin

Verb

serrātō

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of serrō

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin serrātus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seˈrato/ [seˈra.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: se‧rra‧to

Noun

serrato m (plural serratos)

1. (anatomy) serratus

Further reading

• “serrato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014