ingombrare
Italian
Etymology
Either:
- From an (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French word, making it cognate with the modern encombrer (“to clutter”).[1]
- Or, from Italian ingombro (“encumbrance”) + -are.[2]
Verb
ingombrare
- (transitive) to block, obstruct
- (transitive) to clutter
Conjugation
Related terms
References
- ^ Dizionario italiano da un affiliato di Oxford University Press. Mondadori Education S.p.A. (on Mac OSX Mavericks)
- ^ Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “ingombro”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati