raffrenare

Italian

Etymology

From ra- + frenare or ra- + affrenare.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /raf.freˈna.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: raf‧fre‧nà‧re

Verb

raffrenàre (first-person singular present raffréno or raffrèno[1], first-person singular past historic raffrenài, past participle raffrenàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to brake strongly (a vehicle); to restrain (a horse)
  2. (figurative) to moderate, to curb

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. freno in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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