imboccare

Meaning

1. (transitive) to feed
2. (broadly, transitive) to put in one's mouth
3. (transitive) to suggest (an answer)
4. (transitive) to enter (a road, passage, entrance, etc.)
5. (intransitive) to enter into, to turn into, to lead to (a road, river, etc.) [with in]
6. (transitive) to shoot (an enemy cannon, gunboat, etc.)
7. (poetic, transitive) to welcome into the mind; to learn
8. (intransitive) to fit [with in ‘into’]

Concepts

feed

spoonfeed

take

Synonyms

prendere

abbocca’

’mbocca’

Translations

donner à manger à

s’engager

embocar

einschlagen

prendre

Hyphenated as

im‧boc‧cà‧re

Pronounced as (IPA)

/im.bokˈka.re/

Etymology

From im (“in”) + bocca (“mouth”) + -are, or from a Vulgar Latin *imbuccāre, from Latin bucca. Compare Spanish and Catalan embocar, French emboucher, Romanian îmbuca.