trapasso

See also: Trapasso and trapassò

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /traˈpas.so/
• Rhymes: -asso
• Hyphenation: tra‧pàs‧so

Etymology 1

Deverbal from trapassare +‎ -o.

Verb

trapasso

1. first-person singular present indicative of trapassare

Noun

trapasso m (plural trapassi)

1. movement from one place or condition to another; transfer

   Synonyms: passaggio, trasferimento

   1. legal transfer
   2. (by extension) clipping of trapasso di proprietà (conveyancing)
   3. (nautical, by extension) clipping of trapasso di bandiera (passage of a ship from one nationality to another)
2. (figurative, by extension) transitory period

   l'epoca di trapasso tra la dopoguerra ed il crollo della URSS

   the transitory epoch between the postwar period and the collapse of the USSR

3. (literary, figurative, by extension) passage to the afterlife; death

   Synonym: morte

Etymology 2

From tra- +‎ passo.

Noun

trapasso m (plural trapassi)

1. a defective gait in which a horse trots with the forelimbs and gallops with the hindquarters

   Synonym: travalca

Anagrams

• Patrasso