ingombrare

Italian

Etymology

Either:

From an Old French word, making it cognate with the modern encombrer (“to clutter”).[1]
Or, from Italian ingombro (“encumbrance”) +‎ -are.[2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /in.ɡomˈbra.re/
Rhymes: -are
Hyphenation: in‧gom‧brà‧re
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Verb

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

(transitive) to block, obstruct
(transitive) to clutter

Conjugation

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

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

Anagrams

Norimberga, ingombrerà

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