sorpasso

== Italian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /sorˈpas.so/ Rhymes: -asso Hyphenation: sor‧pàs‧so === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== sorpasso m (plural sorpassi) overtaking (in a car) === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== sorpasso first-person singular present indicative of sorpassare === Anagrams === soprassò, sossopra == Spanish == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from Italian sorpasso. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /soɾˈpaso/ [soɾˈpa.so] Rhymes: -aso === Noun === sorpasso m (plural sorpassos) (politics) overtaking (situation where a political party manages to get more votes that a party that was previously more successful than it, especially if both parties are perceived to share parts of their ideology) (economics) overtaking (situation where a country or region surpasses another one in terms of GDP or GDP per capita) ==== Usage notes ==== According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.