Dictionaries › Italian

percuotere

Pronunciation: /perˈkwɔ.te.re/

“percuotere” is an Italian word. Its 3 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to strike, to hit, to beat
  2. to afflict, to torment
  3. to bump [with in ‘into’; or with contro ‘against’]

In Italian

  1. battere con forza, colpire con violenza (qualcosa o qualcuno)

Etymology

From Latin percutere (“to strike, beat”), from per- + quatiō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₁t- (“to shake”). Cognate with English percuss, French percuter.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “percuotere” there

More Italian words

About this dictionary

The Italian dictionary on Glottosphere has 148,089 entries with a page. Browse the Italian dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. Definitions in Italian are from the Italian Wiktionary, under the same licence.