Italian–English dictionary

essere sopraffatto

(intransitive, archaic) To overcome with emotion; to overwhelm.

essere sospeso

To be indecisive or uncertain; to vacillate, to waver.

essere sufficiente

(intransitive) To be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be adequate; to be good enough.

essere testimone

(transitive) To see or gain knowledge of through experience.

essere titolare

A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.

essere uguale

(rare, and, regional, chiefly, in the past tense) Used to link two noun clauses: a day of the week, recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place) and a period of time indicating how long ago that day was. [from 15th c.]

essere umano

(fantasy, scifi, mythology) A human as contrasted from superficially similar but typically more powerful humanoid creatures; a member of the human race.

essere una schiappa

(chiefly, North American, intransitive, stative, colloquial, sometimes, vulgar) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency. [from 20th c.]

essersi rotto i coglioni

(informal, idiomatic) Frustrated, annoyed, or tired, to the limit of one's endurance, especially by something that one has experienced for too long. [with with or (British English) of]

essi

(the third-person plural nominative) A group of entities previously mentioned. [since 13th c.]

essiccamento

(uncountable) The state or process of being desiccated

essiccare

(transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.

essiccato

Usually of foods: cured, preserved by drying.

essiccatoio

(most often) Short for clothes dryer, tumble dryer

essiccazione

(uncountable) The state or process of being desiccated

esso

The third-person singular neuter personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.

essoterico

Of a doctrine, information, etc.: suitable to be imparted to the public without secrecy or other reservations.

estasi

(Christianity) In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ.

estasiato

Filled with wonder and delight.

estate

One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as spanning the months of June, July, and August in the Northern Hemisphere and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.

estatico

Feeling or characterized by ecstasy.

estemsione

(ring theory, of an ideal in the domain of a ring homomorphism) The ideal in the codomain generated by the image of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.

estendere

(transitive) To make broad or broader.

estendersi

(transitive) To change (something) from a smaller form or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open.

estendibile

Capable of being extended.

estensibile

Capable of being extended.

estensione

(ring theory, of an ideal in the domain of a ring homomorphism) The ideal in the codomain generated by the image of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.

estenso

(figurative) Considerable in amount.

estenuante

(figuratively) Of work, very physically tiring.

estenuarsi

(figuratively) To lose firmness, elasticity, vigor, or a thriving state; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.

estere

(organic compound) A compound most often formed by the condensation of an alcohol and an acid, with elimination of water, which contains the functional group carbon-oxygen double bond (i.e., carbonyl) joined via carbon to another oxygen atom.

esteriore

Of or pertaining to the outer surface, limit or boundary.

esterismo

The inward forms of faith and religion; transcendence, mystic experience, and internal realizations of the Divine.

esternalizzare

(chiefly, US, business, management, transitive) To transfer the management or day-to-day execution of a business function to a third-party service provider.

esternalizzazione

The transfer of a business function to an external service provider.

esterno

Provided by something or someone outside of the entity (object, group, company etc.) considered.

estero

Any country of which one is not a citizen. (This entry is a translation hub.)

esterofilia

A strong or excessive preference for foreigners or for foreign customs, manners, or institutions.

estesamente

In a widespread or large manner.

esteso

(figurative) Considerable in amount.

estetica

The study or philosophy of beauty.

esteticamente

In an aesthetic manner; with a pleasing sensory effect.

Estia

(Greek god) The virgin goddess of the hearth, and the household, and therefore of domestic life.

estimare

(transitive) To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate; to estimate.

estinguere

To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.

estirpare

To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.

estirpazione

The process of removing or the fact of being removed.

estone

Of, from, or pertaining to the country of Estonia, its people or their language.

Estonia

A country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. Official name: Republic of Estonia.

estorcere

(transitive) To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.

estorsione

The practice of extorting money or other property by the use of force or threats.

estradare

(transitive) To remove a person from one state to another by legal process.

estradizione

A formal process by which a criminal suspect held by one government or jurisdiction is handed over to another government or jurisdiction for trial or, if the suspect has already been tried and found guilty, to serve his or her sentence.

estragone

A perennial herb, the wormwood species Artemisia dracunculus, from Europe and parts of Asia.

estranea

Located outside a country or place, especially one's own.

estraneo

Located outside a country or place, especially one's own.

estraniarsi

To cause one to feel unable to relate.

estraniato

Having become a stranger, of one who formerly was close, as a relative, friend, lover, or spouse.

estrarre

(transitive) To separate; to disengage. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

estratto

An abridgement or summary of a longer publication. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

estrattore

A tool used to strip tubing: to empty it by applying pressure to the outside of the tubing and moving that pressure along the tubing.

estravagante

Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.

estrazione

(UK) A game in which prizes are covered up and mixed together in a container, so that contestants can dip their hand into the container and randomly pull out a prize.

estrazione a premi

A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.

estrazione del lotto

A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.

estrema

Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.

estremamente

To a deep extent or degree; very greatly.

estremismo

Extreme ideas or actions, primarily in politics or religion.

estremista

One who is narrow-mindedly devoted to their own ideas and groups, and intolerant of (people of) differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc.

estremità

A natural prolongation or projection from a part of any organism.

estremo

Either of the two points at the ends of a line segment.

estro

A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.

estrogeno

(steroid hormone) Any of a group of steroids that are secreted by the ovaries and function as female sex hormones.

estromettere

(transitive) To expel; to remove.

estroverso

(informal, _, psychology) Of or characteristic of the personality of an extrovert: outgoing, sociable.

estrusione

A manufacturing process where a billet of material is pushed and/or drawn through a die to create a shaped rod, rail or pipe.

estuario

A coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge, resulting in a brackish water zone.

esuberante

Full of energy; exuberant; noisy.

esuberanza

(figuratively) The quality of enthusiastic or lively expression of feelings and thoughts.

esule

(countable) Someone who is banished from his home or country.

esultante

Very happy.

esultanza

A triumphant shouting; rejoicing; exultation.

esultare

(transitive) To gladden; to make cheerful; often with up.

esumare

(transitive) To take out of the grave or tomb.

esumazione

The act of digging up that which has been buried.

età

(countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.

etanolo

(organic compound) A simple aliphatic alcohol formally derived from ethane by replacing one hydrogen atom with a hydroxyl group: CH3-CH2-OH.

eteo

A person of the Hittite Kingdom, a Bronze Age kingdom of Anatolia.

Etere

(Greek god) One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of light, brother-husband of Hemera and grandson of Chaos.

etereo

Ethereal, insubstantial; imaginary. [from 16th c.]

eternamente

For eternity; forever.

eternare

(transitive) To make (something) perpetual; to make (something) continue for an indefinite time; also, to preserve (something) from extinction or oblivion.

eternità

(informal, hyperbole) A long period of time.

eterno

Lasting forever; unending.

etero

(gay slang) Heterosexual.

etero-

Other, by another.

eterodosso

Of or pertaining to creeds, beliefs, or teachings, especially religious ones, that are different from what a religion (or sect) believes to be orthodox, but (usually) not conflicting with that religion's established beliefs and therefore not heretical.

eterofobia

Fear or resentment of heterosexuals or heterosexuality.

eterogeneità

(countable) A composition of diverse parts.

eterogeneo

Unrelated and unspecialized; heterogeneous.

eterosessuale

(of a person or other animal) Sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex.

eterozigote

(genetics) A diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci.

eticamente

In an ethical manner.

etichetta

The manners or decent behaviour to be observed in social or professional life; conventional decorum; the ceremonial code of polite society.

etichettare

(transitive) To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).

etichettatura

A set of labels applied to the various objects in a system, to packaged goods, and so on; the act or process of applying them.

etico

Used to form adjectives, meaning "pertaining to", derived from nouns, most of which end in -esis

etilismo

A chronic disease caused by compulsive and uncontrollable consumption of alcoholic beverages, leading to addiction and deterioration in health and social functioning.

etilometro

A device that measures alcohol in expired air so as to estimate the concentration of alcohol in a person's blood; used by traffic police in cases of suspected driving while under the influence of alcohol.

etimo

(linguistics, philology) The original or earlier form of an inherited or borrowed word, affix, or morpheme either from an earlier period in a language's development, from an ancestral language, or from a foreign language.

etimologia

The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.

etino

(organic compound, official IUPAC name) The organic compound acetylene. The simplest alkyne, a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula HC≡CH or C2H2.

etiope

Of, from, or pertaining to Ethiopia, the Ethiopian people or the Ethiopian culture.

Etiopia

A country in East Africa.

etiopico

Of, from, or pertaining to Ethiopia, the Ethiopian people or the Ethiopian culture.

etmano

Title used by the second-highest military commander in Poland and Lithuania (15th to 18th century).

Etna

An active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, between Messina and Catania.

etnologia

(anthropology) The branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes different human cultures and the relationships between them.

etologia

(zoology) The scientific study of animalian behavior, especially that of nonhuman animals.

etologo

A person who studies ethology.

etta

small, immature, miniature

etto

Used to form diminutives.

eucalipto

Any of many trees, of genus Eucalyptus, native mainly to Australia.

eucalitto

Any of many trees, of genus Eucalyptus, native mainly to Australia.

Euclide

Euclid of Alexandria, a Greek mathematician, fl. 300 BC.

Eufemia

A en given name.

eufonia

A pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear.

euforia

(informal) A rush or feeling of energy or excitement; a feeling of slight intoxication.

euforico

Feeling great well-being or elation or intense happiness; characterized by euphoria

Eufrate

A river in the Middle East, 2780 kilometers in length, flowing southwest from Turkey, then southeast, and uniting with the Tigris before entering the Persian Gulf. It forms the Western edge of classical Mesopotamia.

eugenetica

(sociology, biology) A social philosophy or practice which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding, either by encouraging people with superior genetic qualities to reproduce (positive eugenics), or discouraging people with inferior genetic qualities from reproducing (negative eugenics), or by technological means.

Eugenia

A en given name. Variant: Eugenie.

Eugenio

A en given name.

eunuco

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

eureka

An exclamation indicating a sudden discovery.

Euridice

(Greek mythology) The name of various figures in Greek mythology.

euristica

A heuristic method. [from 1860]

euristico

(of an approach to problem solving, learning, or discovery) That employs a practical method not guaranteed to be optimal or perfect; either not following or derived from any theory, or based on an advisedly oversimplified one. [from 1821]

eurodeputata

(EU politics) Initialism of Member of the European Parliament.

eurodeputato

(EU politics) Initialism of Member of the European Parliament.

europarlamentare

(EU politics) Initialism of Member of the European Parliament.

Eustachio

A en given name.

eutanasia

The practice of intentionally killing a human being or animal in a humane way, especially in order to end suffering.

evacuamento

The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging, including creating a vacuum.

evacuazione

The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging, including creating a vacuum.

Evandro

A en given name.

evanescente

Disappearing, vanishing.

Evangelina

A en given name.

evangelista

(Bible) A writer of a gospel, especially the four New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), usually capitalized (Evangelist).

evaporazione

The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state.