serrato

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Italian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /serˈra.to/
  • Rhymes: -ato
  • Hyphenation: ser‧rà‧to

Participle[edit]

serrato (feminine serrata, masculine plural serrati, feminine plural serrate)

  1. past participle of serrare

Adjective[edit]

serrato (feminine serrata, masculine plural serrati, feminine plural serrate, superlative serratissimo)

  1. closed or shut tightly
  2. fast, quick, rapid
  3. clenched (teeth)
  4. (figurative) concise
    stile serratoconcise (writing) style
  5. persuasive, cogent
    un raggionamento serratopersuasive reasoning
  6. (zoology) of a horse that lacks perpendicularity and has a front limb bent inwards

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Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

serrātō

  1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of serrō

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin serrātus.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /seˈrato/ [seˈra.t̪o]
  • Rhymes: -ato
  • Syllabification: se‧rra‧to

Noun[edit]

serrato m (plural serratos)

  1. (anatomy) serratus

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