avanzare

Meaning

  1. (intransitive) to advance, to proceed (to move forward)
  2. (intransitive) to stick out
  3. (figuratively, intransitive) to advance (to make progress)
  4. (transitive, uncommon) to pass, to cross
  5. (figuratively, transitive) to overcome, to surpass
  6. (transitive, uncommon) to advance (to push or move forward)
  7. (figuratively, transitive) to promote, to advance
  8. (figuratively, literary, transitive) to empower (to give more power to)
  9. (figuratively, transitive) to put forward
  10. (intransitive) to be left, to remain
  11. (intransitive) to be in excess
  12. (intransitive, uncommon) to survive, to escape [with a]
  13. (transitive) to be owed
  14. (obsolete, transitive) to save up, to set aside, to put aside
  15. (obsolete, transitive) to surpass
  16. (obsolete, transitive) to have a lot of

Opposite of
arretrare, regredire, finire, terminare
Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
a‧van‧zà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/a.vanˈt͡sa.re/
Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin ab Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Proto-Italic *anti Latin ante Late Latin ab ante Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Vulgar Latin *abanteāre Italian avanzare Inherited from Vulgar Latin *abanteāre, from Late Latin ab ante, from ab + ante.

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