coricare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to put to bed
  2. (transitive) to lay down

Hyphenated as
co‧ri‧cà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ko.riˈka.re/
Etymology

Inherited from Latin collocāre (“set in place”). The more conservative variant colcare led to corcare through the widespread rhotacism of preconsonantal /l/. The epenthetic /i/ may have been inserted by analogy with the similar-sounding caricare ~ carcare (“to load, stow”). Doublet of collocare, which was borrowed from Latin.

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