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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

Salire

Pronunciation / Transliteration: saˈliːre

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Climb/klaɪm/
verbnounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #850 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Ha deciso di salire la montagna nonostante il brutto tempo."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To go or come up a slope, incline, or staircase.

    "She decided to climb the mountain despite the bad weather."
As noun
  1. 1

    An act of climbing.

    "The climb to the summit took several hours."
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Synonyms (3)
Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English 'climban', of West Germanic origin, meaning to climb or creep. It shares roots with the Old High German 'klimban' and Old Norse 'klimpr', evolving historically to describe moving upward with physical effort.

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