Italian–English dictionary

concreto

Existing in reality, not just potentially; really acted or acting; occurring in fact. [from 14th c.]

concrezione

(petrology) A rounded mass of a mineral, sometimes found in sedimentary rock or on the ocean floor.

concubinaggio

The state of being or keeping a concubine.

concubinario

The state of being or keeping a concubine.

concubinato

The state of cohabiting or living together as man and woman while not married.

concupire

(transitive) To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.

condanna

(countable) A judgement of guilt in a court of law.

condannare

(chiefly, religion, ethics) To convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something).

condannato

(legal) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.

condensare

(transitive) To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).

condensarsi

(intransitive, chemistry) To be transformed from a gaseous state into a liquid state.

condensatore

(electronics) An electronic component capable of storing electrical energy in an electric field; especially one consisting of two conductors separated by a dielectric.

condimento

Something used to enhance the flavor of food, for example, salt or pepper, especially when added by the eater to taste rather than by the cook.

condire

(American spelling, transitive) To add flavoring to something.

condire con pepe

(transitive) To add pepper to.

condiscendente

Indulgent, doting.

condizionale

(grammar) The conditional mood.

condizionalmente

under specified conditions

condizionare

(transitive) To influence or alter.

condizione

The status or condition of something

condizione sociale

(sociology, countable) A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes: upper class, middle class and working class.

condizioni accessorie

(figurative, in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.

condoglianza

(countable, usually, in the plural) An expression of comfort, support, or sympathy offered to the family and friends of somebody who has died.

condoglianze

(countable, usually, in the plural) An expression of comfort, support, or sympathy offered to the family and friends of somebody who has died.

condolersi

Followed by with: to express condolence to, or sympathetic sorrow with, someone; to lament in sympathy with someone.

condominio

A residential building containing multiple apartments or flats.

condonazione

(law) A referral of a case back to another (especially a lower or inferior) court of law; a remand, a remittal.

condono

(law) A referral of a case back to another (especially a lower or inferior) court of law; a remand, a remittal.

condor

Either of two New World vultures, Vultur gryphus of the Andes or Gymnogyps californianus, a nearly extinct vulture of the mountains of California.

condor della California

Either of two New World vultures, Vultur gryphus of the Andes or Gymnogyps californianus, a nearly extinct vulture of the mountains of California.

condor delle Ande

Either of two New World vultures, Vultur gryphus of the Andes or Gymnogyps californianus, a nearly extinct vulture of the mountains of California.

condotta

The act or method of controlling or directing.

condottiere

A powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler.

condottiero

A position of control or leadership.

condotto

A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another

conducente

(rail transport) A person who takes tickets on public transportation and also helps passengers.

condurre

To move (something) from one place to another.

conduttore

(physics) Something that can transmit electricity, heat, light, or sound.

conduttrice

A female anchorperson.

conduzione

The act or method of controlling or directing.

conestabile

(historical) An officer of a noble court in the Middle Ages, usually a senior army commander. (See also marshal).

confacente

Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited.

confederazione

An alliance.

conferenza

A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.

conferenziere

A person who gives lectures, especially as a profession.

conferimento di potere

The state of being empowered (either generally, or specifically).

conferire

To impart (something) gratuitously; to present (something) to someone or something, especially as a gift or an honour; to confer, to give, to accord; to render.

conferma

An open declaration of affirmation or admission of knowledge.

confermare

(transitive) To own as genuine or valid; to assent to (a legal instrument) to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form.

confermato

Verified or ratified.

confermazione

A ceremony of sealing and conscious acknowledgement of the faith in many Christian churches, typically around the ages of 14 to 18; considered a sacrament in some churches, including Catholicism, but not in most Protestant churches.

confessare

(idiomatic) To confess; admit the truth.

confessionale

(Roman Catholicism) A small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a priest.

confessore

(Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism) A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution.

confetto

(countable, chiefly, North America, Philippines) A piece of confectionery of this kind.

confettura

(less common in the, _, US, &, Canada) A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts

confezionare

To make by hand and with much skill.

confezionato

Having been placed in a package.

confezione

A collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble.

conficcare

(ambitransitive) To force into a narrow gap.

confidare

(transitive) To trust to the care of.

confidente

(figurative) A person to whom a secret is entrusted.

confidenza

Information held in secret; a piece of information shared but to thence be kept in secret.

confidenziale

Not meant to be disclosed by a person or organization.

confidenzialità

(uncountable) The property of being confidential.

confidenzialmente

In a confidential manner.

configurare

(astrology) To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.). [from 14th c.]

configurarsi

(archaic, intransitive) To exist or be compatible.

configurazione

The form of a thing, as depending on the relative placement of the parts of a thing's shape.

confinamento

The act of confining or the state of being confined.

confinante

(American spelling) Situated or living nearby or adjacent to.

confinare

(transitive) To surround a territory or other geographical entity; to form the boundary of.

confine

The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.

confino

(legal) Restraint in which a person is influenced, whether by lawful or unlawful forceful compulsion of their liberty by monition or implementation of physical enforcement; legally for the incurring of civil liability, of a citizen's arrest, or of subrogation, or illegally for the committing of an offense, of forcing a contract, or of using threats.

confisca

The act or process of confiscating.

confiscare

(transitive) To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.

confisso

(linguistic morphology) A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem, such as a prefix or suffix.

conflagrazione

A large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.

conflitto

(idiomatic) In disagreement; conflicting.

confondere

(transitive) To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit. [First attested from around (1150 to 1350).]

conformarsi

(intransitive, with in or to (or sometimes with)) To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object.

conforme

Compatible with or following guidelines, specifications, rules, or laws.

conformista

Someone who tries to conform to the mainstream.

conformità

An act of complying.

confortante

Giving comfort, especially in the sense of soothing distress.

confortare

(transitive) To support; to maintain; to be responsible for.

confortevole

Providing physical comfort and ease; agreeable. [from 18th c.]

conforto

(uncountable) Comfort, support or sympathy.

confratelli

(figuratively) The body of members, especially of a fraternal, religious or military order.

confratello

A male fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.

confraternita

Shortened form of fraternity, college organization. (Often used as a noun modifier.)

confrontabile

(often with to) Able to be compared (to).

confrontare

(transitive) To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things ["to compare X with Y"]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it similar to Y or different from Y.

confrontarsi

(transitive) To bring someone face to face with something.

confronto

The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.

Confucio

An influential Chinese philosopher who lived 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E.; personal name Kong Qiu (孔丘).

confusionario

One who brawls, engages in noisy, unseemly fights.

confusione

The state of being abashed; embarrassment from shame. [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]

confuso

Embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed.

confutare

(transitive, now, _, rare) To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.

confutazione

An act of refuting or disproving; the disproving of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory by argument or countervailing proof; evidence of falseness.

congedare

(transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.

congedo

(military) The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.

congegnare

(transitive) To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).

congegno

A machine that is complicated and precarious.

congelamento

An injury suffered as a result of freezing of some part of the body, typically fingers, toes or the nose.

congelare

(transitive) To change from a liquid to solid state, perhaps due to cold; called to freeze in nontechnical usage.

congelarsi

(intransitive, break dancing) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.

congelato

Having undergone the process of freezing; in ice form.

congelatore

Anything which cools.

congenialità

The quality of being congenial; the state of being agreeable or of having similar tastes.

congenito

(of a trait or a disease) Present since birth.

congettura

(formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.

congetturale

In the nature of a conjecture, or based on a conjecture.

congiunta

Done by two or more people or organisations working together.

congiuntamente

Together with or at the same time.

congiunto

Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (legal) related on the mother's side.

congiuntura

A place where things join, a junction.

congiunzione

(astronomy) The conjunction of two celestial objects.

congiura

A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable. [from 1580s]

congiurare

(transitive, intransitive) To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).

congiurata

One of a group that acts in harmony to do something unlawful and unethical; a person who is part of a conspiracy.

congiurato

One of a group that acts in harmony to do something unlawful and unethical; a person who is part of a conspiracy.

conglomerare

(transitive) To combine together into a larger mass.

conglutinazione

The agglutination of an antigen, antibody and complement by the addition of a serum agent.

congratularsi

(transitive, intransitive) To express approval (of something) by clapping the hands.

congratulazione

The act of congratulating.

congratulazioni

Expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation.

congrega

A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.

congregazione

A gathering of faithful in a temple, church, synagogue, mosque or other place of worship. It can also refer to the people who are present at a devotional service in the building, particularly in contrast to the pastor, minister, imam, rabbi etc. and/or choir, who may be seated apart from the general congregation or lead the service (notably in responsory form).

conguagliare

(transitive) To make the credits and debits of (an account) correspond.

coniare

(by extension) To make or fabricate (especially a word or phrase).

conicità

The condition of being conical.

conifera

(botany) A plant belonging to the order Coniferales; a cone-bearing seed plant with vascular tissue, usually a tree.

coniglia

A female rabbit.

conigliera

A coop or cage for keeping small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, etc).

coniglietta

A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.

coniglietto

(informal, childish) A rabbit, especially a juvenile one.

coniglio

(countable, slang, sometimes, derogatory) A coward.

coniglio d'Angora

A rabbit belonging to the Angora rabbit breed, one of the oldest domestic breeds of rabbits in the world, raised chiefly in Europe for its silky and long hair (a subspecies of the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus).

conio

The process of coining money.

coniugare

(transitive, figurative) To make (concepts) agree.

coniugato

In a state of marriage; having a wife or a husband.

coniuge

A person in a marriage or marital relationship.

connaisseur

A specialist in a given field whose opinion is highly valued, especially in one of the fine arts or in matters of taste.

connazionale

Somebody from one's own country.

Connecticut

A state in the northeastern United States.

connessione

(countable, uncountable) Connection or attachment.

connesso

(mathematics, graph theory, of a graph) Having a path, either directed or undirected, connecting every pair of vertices.

connettere

(transitive) To couple.