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Etymology

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From a Vulgar Latin *liccāre (compare French lécher), itself probably from Proto-West Germanic *likkōn. See English lick for more.

Alternatively from an early contraction of *ligicāre, denasalized from *lingicāre, from Classical Latin lingere. This is based on the analogy with *fīccāre (whence Italian ficcare), generally derived from *fīgicāre, from fīgere. However, the last-mentioned etymology (while commonly accepted) is not inevitable and at any rate requires only two theoretical steps, rather than three.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /lekˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: lec‧cà‧re
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Verb

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leccàre (first-person singular present lécco, first-person singular past historic leccài, past participle leccàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to lick

Conjugation

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