Italian–English dictionary

fandango

(music, dance) A form of lively flamenco music and dance that has many regional variations (e.g. fandango de Huelva), some of which have their own names (e.g. malagueña, granadina). [from mid 18th c.]

fandonia

(informal) A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.

fanfarona

(Canada, US, derogatory) A person who talks too much or too loudly, especially in a boastful or self-important manner. [from c. 1840]

fanfaronata

Empty boasting.

fanfarone

(Canada, US, derogatory) A person who talks too much or too loudly, especially in a boastful or self-important manner. [from c. 1840]

fanghiglia

Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.

fango

Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.

fangosità

The characteristic of being muddy.

fangoso

Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud.

fannullone

(slang) A person who cops out.

fanone

(physiology, uncountable) keratinous material that makes up the plates in the mouth of the baleen whale (Mysticeti), which it uses to trap its food; formerly used in corsetry.

fantasia

An image or representation of anything formed in the mind.

fantasma

A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.

fantasmatico

Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits.

fantastica

Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier).

fantasticamente

In a fabulous manner.

fantasticare

(intransitive) To have such a series of thoughts; to woolgather.

fantasticheria

An extravagant conceit of the imagination; a vision.

fantastico

(colloquial, North America, Australia) Excellent, exciting, remarkable.

fantastilione

(slang, hyperbole) An unspecified large number (of).

fantasy

(literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.

fante

(slang, rare) A jack (the playing card).

fanteria d'assalto

(military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.

fantino

One who rides racehorses competitively.

fantoccio

Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.

fantoccio di neve

A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).

far

To cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder.

far bollire

(transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.

far calare

(transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.

far collassare

(intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.

far detonare

(transitive) To cause to explode.

far diventare

(transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.

far entrare

(transitive) To allow (someone) to enter a profession or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise.

far esplodere

(transitive) To cause to explode.

far fronte

(intransitive) To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.

far girare

(ergative) To revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on a horizontal axis; to impel forward with a revolving motion on a supporting surface.

far girare il cavallo legato con lunga cavezza al palo

(transitive) To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).

far gonfiare

(transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.

far male

To damage, hurt, or injure something, usually an inanimate object.

far passare

(transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.

far penzolare

(transitive) To hang or trail something loosely.

far presagire

(ambitransitive) To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell.

far rotolare

(ergative) To revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on a horizontal axis; to impel forward with a revolving motion on a supporting surface.

far rullare

(transitive) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.

far saltare

(transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.

far scendere il latte alle ginocchia

(ambitransitive) To make or to become weary.

far sedere

(transitive) To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.

far smettere

(transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.

far sudare

(transitive, intransitive, cooking) To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.

far valere

To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to.

Far West

(historical) The western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement, commonly believed to be lawless and unruly.

farabutto

A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a person without honor or virtue.

faraone

(card games) A game of chance played by betting on the order in which certain cards will appear when taken singly from the top of the pack.

farcela

(informal, transitive) To overcome; to endure.

farcire

(transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.

farcire con pancetta

(cooking) To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.

farcito

(informal) Containing the maximum amount possible, flush on all sides, jam-packed, crammed.

fard

(uncountable, countable) A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks.

fardello

A heavy load.

fare

(intransitive, mathematics, construed with on or upon, of an algebraic structure) To possess an action onto (some other structure). Examples include the group action of a group on a set, the action of a ring on a module by scalar multiplication, and the action of a group or algebra on a vector space via a representation.

fare [[l']]occhiolino

(transitive, intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)

fare a dadini

(transitive) To cut into small cubes.

fare a pezzi

(intransitive) To break or separate into pieces; to disintegrate or come apart.

fare addormentare

(transitive) To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm

fare affidamento

(intransitive, usually followed by on or upon) To trust; to have confidence; to rely.

fare alleanza

To unite or form a connection between (people or things), as between families by marriage, or between states by confederacy, league, or treaty.

fare attenzione

Used to warn someone to proceed with caution.

fare bancarotta

(transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.

fare caldo

(of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.

fare capo

(intransitive, stative) To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to.

fare capolino

(specifically, in, _, programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.

fare capriole

(intransitive) To move about carelessly, playfully or boisterously.

fare causa

(transitive) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal (civil) action.

fare cilecca

(transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)

fare colazione

(dated) To eat breakfast; to eat the first meal of the day after a night of not eating or to conclude any period of fasting by consuming food.

fare da babysitter

(ambitransitive) To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.

fare da capro espiatorio

(transitive, intransitive) To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of.

fare dama

To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.

fare domanda

(intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" or "at" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position).

fare esperimento

(transitive, obsolete) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.

fare fiasco

(intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).

fare finta

(transitive, obsolete) To intend; to design, to plot; to attempt.

fare freddo

(of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.

fare fuoco

(transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.

fare gli auguri

(transitive) To arrive at or reach, or meet.

fare i convenevoli

(intransitive, archaic) To meet and give salutations.

fare il bagno

(transitive) To clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to give someone a bath.

fare il broncio

(intransitive) To push out one's lips.

fare il culo

(transitive) To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.

fare il lavaggio del cervello

(psychology) To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (e.g. hypnosis)

fare il modello

(intransitive) To make a model or models.

fare il pendolare

(intransitive, US, UK, Canada) To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.

fare il portoghese

To attend a social event without having been invited, or without having paid.

fare il punto

(transitive) To inform subjects of an experiment about what has happened in a complete and accurate manner.

fare il verso

(intransitive) To jeer; to laugh with contempt and derision.

fare in modo che

(intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition). [from 18th c.]

fare irruzione

(slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.

fare jogging

(transitive) To cause to move at an energetic trot.

fare l'amore

(intransitive) To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way. [from 18th c.]

fare l'offeso

(intransitive) To express ill humor or offence by remaining sullenly silent or withdrawn.

fare la coda

(intransitive) To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.

fare la corte

(transitive) To attempt to attract; to invite by attractions; to allure.

fare la fila

(intransitive) To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.

fare la fronda

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

fare la guerra

(intransitive) To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).

fare la modella

(intransitive) To make a model or models.

fare la muta

(intransitive) To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one.

fare la ninna nanna

(transitive) To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm

fare la predica

(transitive) To preach, to berate, to scold.

fare la ruota

(intransitive) Of a peacock or other fowl: to stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out.

fare la soffiata

(slang, intransitive) To inform on, especially in betrayal of others.

fare la spia

(slang, intransitive) To inform on, especially in betrayal of others.

fare la spola

(intransitive, transitive) To go or send back and forth between two places.

fare la toilette

(transitive) To care for (horses or other animals) by brushing and cleaning them.

fare le feste

(intransitive, of a dog) To show devotion or submissiveness by wagging its tail, nuzzling, licking, etc.

fare le fusa

(intransitive, of a cat) To make a vibrating sound in its throat when contented or in certain other conditions.

fare leva su

(transitive, chiefly, US, slang, business) To use; to exploit; to manipulate in order to take full advantage (of something).

fare lo scalpo

To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.

fare lo sciocco

(archaic) To make a fool of; to make act the fool.

fare lo spogliarello

(transitive) To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.

fare male

(intransitive, stative) To be painful.

fare man bassa

(transitive) Synonym of plunder, to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during war or (video games) after successful combat.

fare mangiare

(transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.

fare manovre di corridoio

(intransitive, transitive) To attempt to influence (a public official or decision-maker) in favor of a specific opinion or cause.

fare migliorie

(transitive) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).

fare ombra

(transitive, obsolete) To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen.

fare pratica

To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.

fare pressione

(transitive) To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.

fare pressioni su

(intransitive, transitive) To attempt to influence (a public official or decision-maker) in favor of a specific opinion or cause.

fare punto

To earn points in a game.

fare qua qua

To make a noise like a duck.

fare ricorso

(intransitive) To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.

fare rima

(reciprocal, of two or more words) To be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.

fare rispettare

(obsolete) To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to energize.

fare saltare

To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.

fare satira

(transitive) To make a satire of; to mock.

fare schifo

(intransitive, stative, informal) To be greatly inferior; to perform badly.

fare sesso occasionale

(intransitive, slang, followed by with) To have a casual sexual experience with another person, usually without any future relationship intended.

fare spallucce

(ambitransitive) To raise (the shoulders) to express uncertainty, lack of concern, (formerly) dread, etc.

fare surf

To ride a wave on a surfboard; to pursue or take part in the sport of surfing.

fare tabula rasa

(transitive) To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy

fare testa o croce

To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.

fare trekking

(ambitransitive) To take a long walk (on something) for pleasure or exercise.

fare un assolo

(music) To perform a solo.

fare un bilancio

(transitive) To inform subjects of an experiment about what has happened in a complete and accurate manner.

fare un buco nell'acqua

(intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).

fare un ditalino

(transitive, sex) To use the fingers to penetrate or sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vulva, vagina, or anus.

fare un favore

To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward.

fare un passo indietro

(intransitive) To step backwards.

fare un sonnellino

(intransitive) To take a catnap (short sleep or nap). [from 1850s]