sfrecciare

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Italian

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Etymology

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From s- +‎ freccia (arrow) +‎ -are.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sfretˈt͡ʃa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: sfrec‧cià‧re

Verb

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sfrecciàre (first-person singular present sfréccio, first-person singular past historic sfrecciài, past participle sfrecciàto, auxiliary èssere)

  1. (intransitive) to speed; to dart; to whiz; to zip
    • 2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:
      Nella mente cominciò a sfrecciargli una folla di pensieri imprevedibili, ma in apparenza del tutto irrilevanti.
      Thoughts which came of their own accord but seemed totally uninteresting began to flit through his mind.
      (literally, “A crowd of unpredictable but seemingly totally irrelevant thoughts began to rush in his mind.”)

Conjugation

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