toccare

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Italian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *tuccāre, of Germanic or onomatopoeic origin.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /tokˈka.re/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: toc‧cà‧re

Verb

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toccàre (first-person singular present tócco, first-person singular past historic toccài, past participle toccàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to touch (to make physical contact with)
    Si prega di non toccare questo.
    Please don't touch this.
  2. (transitive) to be entitled to, to be up to [with a]
    Tocca a te parlare.
    It's your turn to speak.
    Il premio è toccato a noi.
    We are entitled to the prize.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • toccare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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Neapolitan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *tuccāre.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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toccare

  1. to touch
  2. to sample, taste

Derived terms

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References

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  • Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “toccare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano