adeguare

adeguare

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin adaequāre.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.deˈɡwa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: a‧de‧guà‧re

Verb

adeguàre (first-person singular present adèguo or (traditional) adéguo[2], first-person singular past historic adeguài, past participle adeguàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to equalize
  2. to conform (one's behavior, etc.), to bring into line (wages, etc.)
  3. (literary) to level, to raze

Conjugation

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 adeguare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  2. ^ adeguo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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