scampare

Meaning

  1. (intransitive) to escape [with a ‘from’]
  2. (transitive) to escape
  3. (dialectal, intransitive, rare) to find refuge [with a ‘in/at’]
  4. (rare, transitive) to save

Synonyms

Frequency

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Hyphenated as
scam‧pà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/skamˈpa.re/
Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *excampāre, variant of *excappāre, a verb based on Late Latin cappa (“cloak”).

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