scioccare

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Italian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English shock.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): */ʃokˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: scioc‧cà‧re

Verb

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scioccàre (first-person singular present sciòcco, first-person singular past historic scioccài, past participle scioccàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to shock (emotionally)

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Neapolitan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *floccāre, from Latin floccus (tuft). By surface analysis, sciuocco +‎ -are. Compare Italian fioccare.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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scioccare

  1. to fall in flakes
  2. to snow

References

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  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 377: “nevica; nevicare” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “scioccare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano