accampare

Italian

Etymology

From a- + campo + -are.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ak.kamˈpa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ac‧cam‧pà‧re

Verb

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

  1. (transitive, military) to encamp, to gather (an army, etc.) into a camp
    • c. 1316, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VIII”, in Purgatorio, lines 79–81; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata, 2nd revised edition, Florence: Casa Editrice Le Lettere, 1994:
      Non le farà sì bella sepultura
      la vipera che Melanesi accampa,
      com’ avria fatto il gallo di Gallura
      So fair a hatchment will not make for her the Viper which encamps the Milanese, as would have made Gallura's Rooster.
  2. (transitive, by extensive) to lodge (e.g. refugees) in a makeshift camp
  3. (transitive, figurative) to assert, advance, put forward (a proposition, etc.)
  4. (intransitive, literary) to stand out (in a picture, painting or other artistic work) [auxiliary avere]
    Synonym: campeggiare
  5. (intransitive, rare, military) to camp, to encamp [auxiliary essere]

Conjugation

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

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Portuguese: acampar
  • Spanish: acampar

Further reading

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

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