affumicare

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin ad + fūmigāre, present active infinitive of fūmigō. By surface analysis, a- + fumo + -icare.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /af.fu.miˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: af‧fu‧mi‧cà‧re

Verb

affumicàre (first-person singular present affùmico, first-person singular past historic affumicài, past participle affumicàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to smoke out, to fill with smoke
  2. (transitive) to smoke (fish, meat, etc.)
    Ho provato ad affumicare la carne ma è finita a bruciare.I tried to smoke the meat but it ended up burning.
    Synonym: (archaic, literary) affumare

Conjugation

Further reading

  • affumicare in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • affumicare in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • affumicare in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • affumicàre in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • affumicare in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
  • affumicare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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