Italian–English dictionary

fritto

(computing, slang) Incorrect, useless, or broken.

fritto misto

(Ireland, British, cuisine) A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.

frivolezza

frivolous act

frivolo

Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.

frizzante

Of a beverage, especially an alcoholic beverage, containing dissolved carbon dioxide (either naturally or that has been added) that comes out of solution in the form of many tiny bubbles.

frizzo

A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe.

frocio

(chiefly, UK, slang, derogatory) A homosexual man.

frodare

(transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).

frode

An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.

frode medica

(countable) An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.

frodi

Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.

frollino

A type of biscuit (cookie), popular in Britain, traditionally made from one part sugar, two parts butter and three parts flour.

frombola

(weapon) An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other.

fronda

(botany) The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.

frontale

The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.

fronte di battaglia

The region or line along which opposing armies engage in combat.

fronte mare

The land alongside a body of water.

fronteggiare

(transitive, of a person or animal) To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something).

frontiera

The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.

fronzolo

(figurative) Something extraneous or not essential; something purely for show or effect; a luxury.

fronzuto

containing much foliage

frottola

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

frugale

Of something which is consumed (such as money, goods, etc.): Careful or wise in expenditure; avoiding waste.

frugalità

The quality of being frugal; prudent economy.

frugare

(transitive, intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something

frugivoro

An animal whose diet is mostly fruit.

frugoletto

(often, humorous) A mischievous child. [from 17th c.]

frugolo

(often, humorous) A mischievous child. [from 17th c.]

fruizione

A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.

frullare

(transitive) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.

frullato

A milkshake.

frullatore

A machine with sharp rotating blades in a bowl, for mashing, crushing, or liquefying food ingredients.

frullio

A sibilant buzz or vibration; the sound of something in rapid motion.

frumento

(countable) Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.

frusta

A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.

frustare

(transitive) To whip or scourge as punishment.

frustata

A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.

frustino

An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.

frustrante

Discouraging; causing annoyance or anger by excessive difficulty.

frustrazione

The feeling of annoyance at impossibility from resistance or inability to achieve something.

frutta

(dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual man; (derogatory, figurative) an effeminate man. [from 1900]

fruttare

To convert (an asset or property, especially investments such as bonds, shares, etc.) into a more easily usable form such as money, especially by selling the asset or property.

fruttato

Containing fruit or fruit flavoring.

frutteto

A garden or an area of land for the cultivation of fruit or nut trees.

frutti di mare

Fish, shellfish, seaweed, and other edible aquatic life.

fruttifero

Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance, applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.

fruttificazione

The condition of bearing fruit.

frutto

(dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual man; (derogatory, figurative) an effeminate man. [from 1900]

frutto di mare

Fish, shellfish, seaweed, and other edible aquatic life.

frutto ingegno

(informal) A creation of one's brain; an original idea or innovation of a person or group of people, an organization, etc.

fruttosio

(carbohydrate) A monosaccharide ketose sugar, formula C6H12O6.

fruttuosità

The state or quality of being fruitful; exuberant abundance.

fruttuoso

Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits.

ftanite

(geology, uncountable) Massive, usually dull-colored and opaque, quartzite, hornstone, impure chalcedony, or other flint-like mineral.

fu

(not comparable, euphemistic) Deceased, dead: used particularly when speaking of the dead person's actions while alive. (Generally must be preceded by a possessive or an article, commonly "the"; see usage notes. Can itself only precede the person's name, never follow it.)

fubbia

A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution.

fucilata

Shots from a gun or guns, typically creating loud report.

fucile

(now, historical) A light flintlock musket or firelock.

fucile a canna liscia

(firearms) A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.

fucile da caccia

(firearms) A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.

fucina

A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.

fuco

A male ant, bee, or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen.

fuffa

Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.

fuga

An escape from prison.

fugace

Lasting for a short period of time.

fuggevole

Lasting for a short period of time.

fuggiasco

A person or animal that runs away or has run away; a person, animal, or organization that escapes captivity or restrictions.

fuggifuggi

(usually attributive) An object or process that is out of control or out of equilibrium.

fuggire

(intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.

fuggire a gambe levate

(ambitransitive, archaic, poetic) To flee, to escape (from).

fuggito

Having run away; escaped; fugitive.

fulcro

(mechanics) The support about which a lever pivots.

fulgere

(intransitive) To be visible briefly.

fuliggine

Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.

fuligine

A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution.

fuliginoso

Pertaining to or resembling soot in such features as colour, texture or taste; sooty, dusky. [from 16th c.]

full

(poker slang) A full house.

fulminare

(transitive) To execute by electric shock, often by means of an electric chair.

fulminazione

The accidental death or suicide by electric shock.

fulmine

A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.

fulvo

Of the fawn colour.

fulvo chiaro

A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.

fumaiolo

The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.

fumante

Warm and humid; full of steam.

fumare

(transitive) To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.

fumata

(colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.

fumatore

A person who smokes tobacco habitually.

fumatrice

A person who smokes tobacco habitually.

fumetti

the medium of comic books, comic strips, and other sequential art

fumetto

(comics) A book or magazine that uses sequences of drawings to narrate a story or a series of stories, primarily in a serialized form, usually fiction.

fumo

A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale.

fune

A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.

funerale

A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.

funesto

Portending evil; ominous.

fungere da frangia

(transitive) To serve as a fringe.

fungibile

(originally, finance, and, commerce) Able to be substituted for something of equal value or utility.

fungino

Of or pertaining to a fungus or fungi.

fungo

(mycology) Any member of the kingdom Fungi; a eukaryotic organism typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular.

fungo velenoso

Any inedible or poisonous mushroom, especially an amanita.

funk

(uncountable, music genre) A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles, characterized by a prominent bass guitar, dance-friendly sound, a strong emphasis on the downbeat, and much syncopation.

funnel

A utensil in the shape of an inverted hollow cone terminating in a narrow pipe, for channeling liquids or granular material; typically used when transferring said substances from any container into ones with a significantly smaller opening.

funtore

(category theory) A category homomorphism; a morphism from a source category to a target category which maps objects to objects and arrows to arrows (either covariantly or contravariantly), in such a way as to preserve morphism composition and identities.

funzionale

(mathematics) A function that takes a function as its argument; more precisely, a function whose argument varies in a space of (real or complex valued) functions and whose value belongs to a monodimensional space.

funzionalità

(computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.

funzionante

That is or are functioning.

funzionare

(intransitive, chiefly, of a, machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).

funzionare grazie ad un arpionismo

(transitive) To cause (something) to become incremented or decremented.

funzionario

A person employed in the civil service; a government employee.

funzione

(uncountable, countable, as bare noun) Christian worship held at a church; service. [from 10th c.]

funzione costante

Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).

funzione di misura

(mathematics, measure theory) A function which obeys a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize and rigorize the notions of length, volume, and probability. Formally, a non-negative, countably additive set function on a sigma-algebra; see w:Measure (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia [from 20th c.]

fuochi d'artificio

(plural only) An event or a display where fireworks are set off.

fuochista

A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.

fuoco

The act of burning something with fire.

fuoco artificiale

A device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames, sparks, whistles or bangs, and sometimes made to rocket high into the sky before exploding, used for entertainment or celebration.

fuoco d'artificio

A device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames, sparks, whistles or bangs, and sometimes made to rocket high into the sky before exploding, used for entertainment or celebration.

fuoco d'inferno

(uncountable) The fire of Hell.

fuoco di Sant'Antonio

(disease, informal) Herpes zoster, caused by Human herpes virus 3, in genus Varicellovirus.

fuoco di sbarramento

(military) A heavy curtain of artillery fire directed in front of one's own troops to screen and protect them.

fuoco incrociato

(military) An arrangement of two or more weapons so each can fire diagonally at something in front of a line between them.

fuogo grande

A large fire; a conflagration.

fuori

(procedure word, especially, military) A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and does not expect a response.

fuori controllo

Barely under control; not under control.

fuori dal comune

Not ordinary; exceptional; unusual.

fuori dal coro

Liking or tending to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people. [from late 20th c.]

fuori dall'ordinario

(idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) Unusual or exceptional, especially for the better.

fuori dalla retta via

In a wrong or unknown and wrongly-motivated direction.

fuori di testa

Out of control.

fuori moda

Of an object, outdated or no longer in vogue.

fuori strada

In a wrong or unknown and wrongly-motivated direction.

fuorigioco

(sports) In an illegal position ahead of the ball, puck, etc.

fuorilegge

(obsolete, law) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.

fuorimano

Distant.

fuoriuscita

The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly:

furberia

The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.

furbesco

Stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert (especially movements).

furbetto

Troublesome, cheeky, badly behaved, impish, naughty, disobedient; showing a fondness for causing trouble in a playful way and liking to have fun by playing harmless tricks on people or doing things they are not supposed to do.

furbizia

The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.

furbo

Knowing, clever, mischievous.

furetto

An often domesticated mammal (Mustela putorius furo) rather like a weasel, descended from the polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals.

furfantaggine

mischievous behaviour

furfante

A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.

furfanteria

mischievous behaviour

furgone

A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus.

furia

Extreme anger.

furibonda

(informal) So angry that one turns pale; very angry; furious; liverish.

furibondo

(informal) So angry that one turns pale; very angry; furious; liverish.

furioso

Furiously, injuriously, or maniacally violent or out of control.

furore

A general uproar or commotion.

furry

Someone who identifies with or as an animal character with human-like characteristics (an anthropomorphic animal character).