sgominare
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin *excombināre, from ex- + combinō.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
sgominàre (first-person singular present sgòmino or sgómino[1], first-person singular past historic sgominài, past participle sgominàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to defeat, overcome, vanquish
- Synonyms: sbaragliare, sconfiggere, disperdere
- (transitive) to rout
- (transitive, archaic) to mess up
- Synonym: scompigliare
- 1518, Niccolò Machiavelli, “atto primo, scena seconda”, in La mandragola:
- Tu hai la bocca piena di latte. E’ ti pare a te una favola avere a sgominare tutta la casa?
- You have a mouth full of milk. Does it seem to you like a fairy tale to mess up the whole house?
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of sgominàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ sgomino in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)