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fallire
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Italian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *fallīre, from Latin fallere.
Pronunciation
Verb
fallìre (first-person singular present fallìsco, first-person singular past historic fallìi, past participle fallìto, auxiliary avére or (in the meanings "to fail, to flop, to go bankrupt") èssere)
- (transitive) to miss, to not hit (a target, a ball, etc.) [auxiliary avere]
- (intransitive) to fail [auxiliary essere]
- (intransitive) to go bankrupt [auxiliary essere]
- (intransitive) to flop [auxiliary essere]
- (intransitive, archaic) to make a mistake [auxiliary avere]
Conjugation
1In the meanings "to fail, to flop, to go bankrupt".
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Descendants
Further reading
- fallire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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