intossicare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to poison
  2. (transitive) to intoxicate
  3. (figuratively, transitive) to corrupt morally, to spoil

Hyphenated as
in‧tos‧si‧cà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/in.tos.siˈka.re/
Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin intoxicāre, from Latin toxicāre, verb based on Latin toxicum (“poison”). By surface analysis, in- + tossico (“poison”) + -are (1st conjugation verbal suffix).

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