grattare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to scratch
  2. (transitive) to scrape
  3. (transitive) to grate (food)
  4. (colloquial, transitive) to filch, to pilfer, to steal
  5. (intransitive) to screech, to grate (to make a harsh rubbing sound)
  6. (intransitive) to grind gears

Frequency

27k
Hyphenated as
grat‧tà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɡratˈta.re/
Etymology

Of Germanic origin; probably borrowed from Frankish *kratton, from Proto-Germanic *krattōną, from Proto-Indo-European *gred-, see also English scratch. Compare French gratter, Catalan gratar, Piedmontese graté.

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