biancicare
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Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From bianco (“white”) + -icare, on the example of Latin albicāre.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
biancicàre (first-person singular present biàncico, first-person singular past historic biancicài, past participle biancicàto, auxiliary avére) (literary, intransitive)
- to be white; to be whitish
- Synonym: biancheggiare
- 1909, Giovanni Pascoli, “La pecorella smarrita”, in Nuovi poemetti, published 1918, page 75, lines 5–6:
- […] Il cielo scende a goccia a goccia.
Biancica, in terra, qua e là, la strada- The sky comes down drop by drop. On the earth, here and there, the road is whitish.
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of biancicàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- biancicare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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