See also: viraré

Italian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Old French virer, possibly from Vulgar Latin *virāre, perhaps a cross between Latin gȳrāre and vibrō.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /viˈra.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: vi‧rà‧re

Verb edit

viràre (first-person singular present vìro, first-person singular past historic virài, past participle viràto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, nautical) to turn, to rotate (the winch, in order to pull up the anchor)
  2. (transitive) to turn, to rotate (a ship, a plane)
  3. (intransitive) to veer, turn away [auxiliary avere]
  4. (intransitive, nautical) to come about, change course; to tack [auxiliary avere]
  5. (intransitive) to bank (of an aircraft) [auxiliary avere]
  6. (intransitive, chemistry) to turn (a particular color) [+ a (object)] [auxiliary avere]
  7. (intransitive, art) to vary in color (of paint) [auxiliary avere]
  8. (intransitive, photography) to chemically replace silver granules with colored ones [auxiliary avere]

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Descendants edit

  • Russian: ви́ра (víra)

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Verb edit

virare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of virar