conciare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to tan (leather); to cure (tobacco)
  2. (transitive) to adjust, to repair
  3. (transitive) to ill-treat
  4. (transitive) to cut (blocks from stone)
  5. (transitive) to cut (gems or marble)
  6. (literary, rare, transitive) to decorate, to adorn
  7. (dialectal, transitive) to season (food)
  8. (transitive) to castrate (calves or pigs)

Hyphenated as
con‧cià‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/konˈt͡ʃa.re/
Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *comptiāre, from Latin comptus. Compare Sicilian cunzari, Venetan consar, conzsar, Catalan acunçar.

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