urtare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to hit or strike
  2. (intransitive, transitive) to bump (into) or knock (against)
  3. (transitive) to annoy or irritate
  4. (intransitive) to encounter
  5. (intransitive, transitive) to stand (against); to contrast (with)
  6. (archaic, transitive) to cause to bump or knock against

Frequency

41k
Hyphenated as
ur‧tà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/urˈta.re/
Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan urtar, probably a derivation from Frankish *hūrt (“battering ram”), from Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną (“to fall, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *krew- (“to fall, beat, smash, strike, break”).

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