accaffare

From a- +‎ caffo +‎ -are.

• IPA^(key): /ak.kafˈfa.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: ac‧caf‧fà‧re

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

1. (obsolete) to seize, to pilfer

   Synonyms: arraffare, ghermire

   • 1314, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXI”, in Inferno‎, lines 52–54; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: Casa Editrice Le Lettere, 1994:

     Poi l’addentar con più di cento raffi,
     disser: «Coverto convien che qui balli,
     sì che, se puoi, nascosamente accaffi».

     They seized him then with more than a hundred rakes; they said: "It here behoves you to dance covered, that, if you can, you secretly may pilfer."

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• accaffare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• accafferà, affaccerà