morsico
See also: morsicò
Italian
Verb
morsico
- first-person singular present indicative of morsicare
Latin
Etymology
Found in Late Latin. From morsus, from mordeō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmor.si.koː/, [ˈmɔr.sɪ.koː]
Verb
morsicō (present infinitive morsicāre, perfect active morsicāvī, supine morsicātum); first conjugation
- I bite.
- I press my lips together (as in kissing).
Derived terms
- commorsicō
- demorsicō
Descendants
- Aragonese: mosaquiar
- Catalan: mossegar
- Corsican: mursicà
- Dalmatian: morscur
- Friulian: smorseâ
- Galician: amosegar
- Istriot: mursagà
- Italian: morsicare
- Occitan: mossegar
- Portuguese: morsegar, mossegar
- Romanian: murseca, mursecare
- Sicilian: muzzicari
- Spanish: moscar
- Tarantino: muzzecà
- Venetian: morsegar, mosegar, musegar
References
- morsico in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- morsico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette