imbatto

See also: imbattò

Italian

Etymology 1

From imbattersi. The nautical sense is widespread in the Meditteranean, with cognates in the Romance languages and borrowings to the East: Portuguese and Spanish embate; Old Catalan, Catalan, and Franco-Provençal embat; Greek εμπάτες (empátes); Turkish imbat.

Noun

imbatto m (plural imbatti)

1. a chance encounter
2. (nautical) imbat (strong sea breeze in summer)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

imbatto

1. first-person singular present indicative of imbattersi

Further reading

• Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 341
• imbatto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• bottami, imbotta