imbatto
See also: imbattò
Italian
Etymology 1
From imbattersi. The nautical sense is widespread in the Meditteranean, with cognates in the Romance languages and borrowings to the East: Portuguese and Spanish embate; Old Catalan, Catalan, and Franco-Provençal embat; Greek εμπάτες (empátes); Turkish imbat.
Noun
imbatto m (plural imbatti)
- a chance encounter
- (nautical) imbat (strong sea breeze in summer)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
imbatto
- first-person singular present indicative of imbattersi
Further reading
- Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée; Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 341
- imbatto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
- bottami, imbotta