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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

fondere

Pronunciation / Transliteration: fon-de-re

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Merge/mɜːrdʒ/
verbnounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #3500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Le due società si fonderanno presto."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To combine or cause to combine to form a single entity.

    "The two competing tech companies decided to merge to increase their market share."
  2. 2

    To slowly transition or blend imperceptibly into something else.

    "As dusk fell, the colors of the horizon began to merge into the dark night."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin verb 'mergere', meaning to dip, plunge, or immerse. It entered the English language in the late Middle English period via Latin, shifting in meaning from physical immersion to the figurative blending, combining, or coalescing of separate entities into a single unified whole.

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