affondare

== Italian == === Etymology === From Vulgar Latin *affundāre, from Latin ad + fundus (“bottom”). By surface analysis, a- +‎ fondo +‎ -are. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /af.fonˈda.re/ Rhymes: -are Hyphenation: af‧fon‧dà‧re === Verb === affondàre (first-person singular present affóndo, first-person singular past historic affondài, past participle affondàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere) (transitive) to sink (to submerge into a liquid; to cause to be submerged into a liquid) Synonym: sommergere (transitive) to sink, to dig, to plunge Synonym: immergere affondò avidamente i denti nella carne ― he greedily sank his teeth in the meat (transitive, uncommon, literal and figurative) to deepen by digging (intransitive) to sink, to founder [auxiliary essere] la nave affondò in pochi minuti ― the ship sank after a few minutes (intransitive, figurative) to go broke, to be ruined [auxiliary essere] (intransitive, figurative) to sink (into chaos, vice, etc.) [auxiliary essere] ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === affondare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana === Anagrams === affonderà