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accampare

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Italian

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Etymology

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    From a- +‎ campo (field) +‎ -are.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ak.kamˈpa.re/
    • Rhymes: -are
    • Hyphenation: ac‧cam‧pà‧re

    Verb

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    accampàre (first-person singular present accàmpo, first-person singular past historic accampài, past participle accampàto, auxiliary avére)

    1. (transitive, military) to encamp, to gather (an army, etc.) into a camp
      • 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VIII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 79–81; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
        Non le farà sì bella sepultura
        la vipera che Melanesi accampa,
        com’ avria fatto il gallo di Gallura
        So fair a hatchment will not make for her the Viper which encamps the Milanese, as would have made Gallura's Rooster.
    2. (transitive, by extensive) to lodge (e.g. refugees) in a makeshift camp
    3. (transitive, figurative) to assert, advance, put forward (a proposition, etc.)
    4. (intransitive, literary) to stand out (in a picture, painting or other artistic work) [auxiliary avere]
      Synonym: campeggiare
    5. (intransitive, rare, military) to camp, to encamp [auxiliary essere]

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    Descendants

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    • Portuguese: acampar
    • Spanish: acampar

    Further reading

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    • accampare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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