allungare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to lengthen
  2. (transitive) to stretch out
  3. (transitive) to pass, to hand
  4. (transitive) to dilute, to water down

Frequency

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Hyphenated as
al‧lun‧gà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/al.lunˈɡa.re/
Etymology

From a- + lungo + -are or from a Vulgar Latin root *allongāre, from ad + Late Latin longāre (cf. also elongāre), from Latin longus. Compare French allonger.

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