affumare

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Italian

Etymology

From a- +‎ fumo +‎ -are, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *affumāre, or *adfumāre, from Latin ad + fumāre, present active infinitive of fumō. Compare Spanish ahumar, Portuguese afumar, Romanian afuma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /af.fuˈma.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: af‧fu‧mà‧re

Verb

affumàre (first-person singular present affùmo, first-person singular past historic affumài, past participle affumàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, archaic, literary) to smoke (food)
    Synonym: affumicare
  2. (transitive, archaic, literary) to darken
    Synonym: offuscare

Conjugation

Further reading

  • affumare in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • affumare in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • affumàre in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • affumare in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
  • affumare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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