mangiare

• magnare (archaic, now dialectal)

Borrowed from Old French mangier, from Latin mandūcāre (“to chew, (coll.) eat”). Doublet of manducare, manicare, and manucare.

• IPA^(key): /manˈd͡ʒa.re/

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• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: man‧già‧re

mangiàre (first-person singular present màngio, first-person singular past historic mangiài, past participle mangiàto, auxiliary avére)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to eat [auxiliary avere]

   Synonym: (archaic, now chiefly jocular) manducare

2. (intransitive) to tuck in, to start to eat [auxiliary avere]
3. (intransitive, by extension) to live

   Synonyms: campare, vivere

4. (transitive, by extension) to gnaw, to nibble, to eat away at (of insects)

   Synonyms: rodere, rosicchiare

5. (transitive, by extension) to consume

   Synonyms: consumare, rodere

   Quella serratura è tutta mangiata dalla ruggine. ― That lock is completely consumed by rust.

6. (transitive, figurative, rare) to dissipate, to squander

   Synonyms: consumare, mangiarsi

   Ha mangiato in breve tempo tutta l’eredità. ― She dissipated all of her inheritance in a short time.

7. (intransitive, figurative) to graft (to obtain illegal gain from dishonest practices, especially in public life) [auxiliary avere]
8. (transitive, figurative, card games, checkers, chess) to capture

• → Dalmatian: mančur, manciuor, manciur
• → Esperanto: manĝi
  • Ido: manjar
• → Macedonian: манџа (mandža)
• → Neapolitan: mangiare, magnare

mangiare m (uncountable)

1. eating
2. (colloquial, dialectal) food, scoff

   Synonyms: cibo, nutrimento

• mangiare¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• mangiare² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Germania, agremani, emargina, magnerai, mangerai, mangeria

• magnare
• mangià, magnà (alt. spellings)

Borrowed from Italian mangiare.

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [maɲˈd͡ʒa]

mangiare

1. to eat

mangiare m (plural [please provide])

1. (often uncountable) food

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1014: “mangiare; mangia” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “mangiare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano