fallire

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Vulgar Latin *fallīre, from Latin fallere.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /falˈli.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: fal‧lì‧re

Verb[edit]

fallìre (first-person singular present fallìsco, first-person singular past historic fallìi, past participle fallìto, auxiliary avére or (in the meanings "to fail, to flop, to go bankrupt") èssere)

  1. (transitive) to miss, to not hit (a target, a ball, etc.) [auxiliary avere]
  2. (intransitive) to fail [auxiliary essere]
  3. (intransitive) to go bankrupt [auxiliary essere]
  4. (intransitive) to flop [auxiliary essere]
  5. (intransitive, archaic) to make a mistake [auxiliary avere]

Conjugation[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • German: fallieren
  • ? Maltese: falla

Further reading[edit]

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