"affondare" meaning in Italian

See affondare in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /af.fonˈda.re/
Rhymes: -are Etymology: From Vulgar Latin *affundāre, from Latin ad + fundus (“bottom”). By surface analysis, a- + fondo + -are. Etymology templates: {{inh|it|VL.|*affundāre}} Vulgar Latin *affundāre, {{inh|it|la|ad}} Latin ad, {{surf|it|a-|fondo|-are}} By surface analysis, a- + fondo + -are Head templates: {{it-verb|a􂀿transitive􂁀:e􂀿intransitive􂁀/ó}} affondàre (first-person singular present affóndo, first-person singular past historic affondài, past participle affondàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere) Inflection templates: {{it-conj|a􂀿transitive􂁀:e􂀿intransitive􂁀/ó}} Forms: affondàre [canonical], affóndo [first-person, present, singular], affondài [first-person, historic, past, singular], affondàto [participle, past], avére [auxiliary, transitive], èssere [auxiliary, intransitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], affondàre [infinitive], avére [auxiliary, transitive], èssere [auxiliary, intransitive], affondàndo [gerund], affondànte [participle, present], affondàto [participle, past], affóndo [first-person, indicative, present, singular], affóndi [indicative, present, second-person, singular], affónda [indicative, present, singular, third-person], affondiàmo [first-person, indicative, plural, present], affondàte [indicative, plural, present, second-person], affóndano [indicative, plural, present, third-person], affondàvo [first-person, imperfect, indicative, singular], affondàvi [imperfect, indicative, second-person, singular], affondàva [imperfect, indicative, singular, third-person], affondavàmo [first-person, imperfect, indicative, plural], affondavàte [imperfect, indicative, plural, second-person], affondàvano [imperfect, indicative, plural, third-person], affondài [first-person, historic, indicative, past, singular], affondàsti [historic, indicative, past, second-person, singular], affondò [historic, indicative, past, singular, third-person], affondàmmo [first-person, historic, indicative, past, plural], affondàste [historic, indicative, past, plural, second-person], affondàrono [historic, indicative, past, plural, third-person], affonderò [first-person, future, indicative, singular], affonderài [future, indicative, second-person, singular], affonderà [future, indicative, singular, third-person], affonderémo [first-person, future, indicative, plural], affonderéte [future, indicative, plural, second-person], affonderànno [future, indicative, plural, third-person], affonderèi [conditional, first-person, present, singular], affonderésti [conditional, present, second-person, singular], affonderèbbe [conditional, present, singular, third-person], affonderébbe [conditional, present, singular, third-person], affonderémmo [conditional, first-person, plural, present], affonderéste [conditional, plural, present, second-person], affonderèbbero [conditional, plural, present, third-person], affonderébbero [conditional, plural, present, third-person], affóndi [first-person, present, singular, subjunctive], affóndi [present, second-person, singular, subjunctive], affóndi [present, singular, subjunctive, third-person], affondiàmo [first-person, plural, present, subjunctive], affondiàte [plural, present, second-person, subjunctive], affóndino [plural, present, subjunctive, third-person], affondàssi [first-person, imperfect, singular, subjunctive], affondàssi [imperfect, second-person, singular, subjunctive], affondàsse [imperfect, singular, subjunctive, third-person], affondàssimo [first-person, imperfect, plural, subjunctive], affondàste [imperfect, plural, second-person, subjunctive], affondàssero [imperfect, plural, subjunctive, third-person], affónda [imperative, second-person, singular], affóndi [formal, imperative, second-person-semantically, singular, third-person], affondiàmo [first-person, imperative, plural], affondàte [imperative, plural, second-person], affóndino [formal, imperative, plural, second-person-semantically, third-person], affondàre [imperative, negative, second-person, singular], affóndi [formal, imperative, negative, second-person-semantically, singular, third-person], affondiàmo [first-person, imperative, negative, plural], affondàte [imperative, negative, plural, second-person], affóndino [formal, imperative, negative, plural, second-person-semantically, third-person]
  1. (transitive) to sink (to submerge into a liquid; to cause to be submerged into a liquid) Tags: transitive Synonyms: sommergere
    Sense id: en-affondare-it-verb-GXemF2wt
  2. (transitive) to sink, to dig, to plunge Tags: transitive Synonyms: immergere
    Sense id: en-affondare-it-verb-uxuO7HoL
  3. (transitive, uncommon, literal and figurative) to deepen by digging Tags: transitive, uncommon
    Sense id: en-affondare-it-verb-xVzLPqqp
  4. (intransitive) to sink, to founder [auxiliary essere] Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-affondare-it-verb-xI2UIgZQ
  5. (intransitive, figurative) to go broke, to be ruined [auxiliary essere] Tags: figuratively, intransitive
    Sense id: en-affondare-it-verb-fJ~bUTay Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header, Italian links with redundant wikilinks, Italian terms prefixed with a-, Italian terms suffixed with -are, Italian verbs ending in -are, Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary, Italian verbs taking essere as auxiliary, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 13 8 9 15 38 17 Disambiguation of Italian links with redundant wikilinks: 11 7 7 12 50 13 Disambiguation of Italian terms prefixed with a-: 16 14 15 15 25 16 Disambiguation of Italian terms suffixed with -are: 15 14 15 14 28 14 Disambiguation of Italian verbs ending in -are: 16 13 14 15 26 15 Disambiguation of Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary: 18 12 12 16 23 18 Disambiguation of Italian verbs taking essere as auxiliary: 18 12 12 16 23 18 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 18 10 11 13 31 17 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 11 12 12 41 12
  6. (intransitive, figurative) to sink (into chaos, vice, etc.) [auxiliary essere] Tags: figuratively, intransitive
    Sense id: en-affondare-it-verb-DaU2~Obp
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: affondamento, affondamine, affondarsi, affondata, affondatoio, affondatore, affondatura, affondo

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "affondamento"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "affondamine"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "affondarsi"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "affondata"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "affondatoio"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "affondatore"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "affondatura"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "affondo"
    }
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      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "ad"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
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      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "a-",
        "3": "fondo",
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      },
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      "name": "surf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Vulgar Latin *affundāre, from Latin ad + fundus (“bottom”). By surface analysis, a- + fondo + -are.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "affondàre",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "affóndo",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondài",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "historic",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondàto",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avére",
      "tags": [
        "auxiliary",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "èssere",
      "tags": [
        "auxiliary",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
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    },
    {
      "form": "affondàre",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "auxiliary",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "èssere",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "auxiliary",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondàndo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "gerund"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondànte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondàto",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "indicative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affónda",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondiàmo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondàte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "present",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affóndano",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "present",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondàvo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondàvi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondàva",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondavàmo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondavàte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondàvano",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondài",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "historic",
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondàsti",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "historic",
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondò",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "historic",
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondàmmo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "historic",
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondàste",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "historic",
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondàrono",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "historic",
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affonderò",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affonderài",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affonderà",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affonderémo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affonderéte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affonderànno",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affonderèi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affonderésti",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affonderèbbe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affonderébbe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affonderémmo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "first-person",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affonderéste",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "plural",
        "present",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affonderèbbero",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "plural",
        "present",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affonderébbero",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "plural",
        "present",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affóndi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affóndi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affóndi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondiàmo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "plural",
        "present",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondiàte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affóndino",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondàssi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondàssi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "second-person",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondàsse",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondàssimo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondàste",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "second-person",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondàssero",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affónda",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affóndi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "imperative",
        "second-person-semantically",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondiàmo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondàte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affóndino",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "second-person-semantically",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondàre",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "negative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affóndi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "imperative",
        "negative",
        "second-person-semantically",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondiàmo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperative",
        "negative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affondàte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "negative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affóndino",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "imperative",
        "negative",
        "plural",
        "second-person-semantically",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "a􂀿transitive􂁀:e􂀿intransitive􂁀/ó"
      },
      "expansion": "affondàre (first-person singular present affóndo, first-person singular past historic affondài, past participle affondàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)",
      "name": "it-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "af‧fon‧dà‧re"
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "a􂀿transitive􂁀:e􂀿intransitive􂁀/ó"
      },
      "name": "it-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Italian",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "to sink (to submerge into a liquid; to cause to be submerged into a liquid)"
      ],
      "id": "en-affondare-it-verb-GXemF2wt",
      "links": [
        [
          "sink",
          "sink"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) to sink (to submerge into a liquid; to cause to be submerged into a liquid)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "sommergere"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "he greedily sank his teeth in the meat",
          "text": "affondò avidamente i denti nella carne",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to sink, to dig, to plunge"
      ],
      "id": "en-affondare-it-verb-uxuO7HoL",
      "links": [
        [
          "sink",
          "sink"
        ],
        [
          "dig",
          "dig"
        ],
        [
          "plunge",
          "plunge"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) to sink, to dig, to plunge"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "immergere"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "\"Here\" he said to me, talking sparsely and deepening a scar in my soul with each word.",
          "ref": "1882, Renato Fucini, “Dolci ricordi”, in Le veglie di Neri: paesi e figure della campagna toscana, page 157:",
          "text": "\"Tieni\" mi disse, parlando rado ed affondandomi ad ogni parola un solco nell'anima.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to deepen by digging"
      ],
      "id": "en-affondare-it-verb-xVzLPqqp",
      "links": [
        [
          "deepen",
          "deepen"
        ],
        [
          "dig",
          "dig"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "literal and figurative",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, uncommon, literal and figurative) to deepen by digging"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive",
        "uncommon"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
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        {
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        "indicative",
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        "plural"
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          "ref": "1882, Renato Fucini, “Dolci ricordi”, in Le veglie di Neri: paesi e figure della campagna toscana, page 157:",
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        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Italian intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to sink (into chaos, vice, etc.)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sink",
          "sink"
        ],
        [
          "essere",
          "essere#Italian"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, figurative) to sink (into chaos, vice, etc.) [auxiliary essere]"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/af.fonˈda.re/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-are"
    }
  ],
  "word": "affondare"
}

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