lessare

Meaning

to boil (to cook in boiling water), to stew, to poach

Synonyms

Translations

Hyphenated as
les‧sà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/lesˈsa.re/
Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin ēlixāre, from Latin lixa (“hot water”), cf. ēlixus. Compare Spanish elijar.

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