beccare
Italian (Fiorentino)
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to peck
- (transitive) to eat
- (transitive) of an insect, etc. to sting or bite
- (transitive) to provoke
- (transitive) to heckle
- (figurative) to nab, to catch
- (figurative) to get, pick up
- (intransitive) to lose (fail to win)
Etymology
Suffix from Italian becco (beak, bill, beak of a bird).
Origin
Italian (Fiorentino)
becco
Gloss
beak, bill, beak of a bird
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- beccus Latin
- antibecco Italian
- beccabile Italian
- beccaccia Italian
- beccatoio Italian
- beccatura Italian
- beccheggiare Italian
- becchettare Italian
- becchime Italian
- becco Italian
- beccucchiare Italian
- beccuccio Italian
- ribeccare Italian
- beca Spanish, Castilian