🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

trascurare

Pronunciation / Transliteration: tras-ku-ra-re

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Neglect/nɪˈɡlɛkt/
nounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #800 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Non dovresti trascurare i tuoi doveri."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To fail to care for properly; to give too little attention or respect to someone or something.

    "If you neglect your house plants, they will eventually wither and die."
As noun
  1. 1

    The state or fact of being uncared for, ignored, or disregarded.

    "The historic building fell into a state of severe neglect over the decades."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'neglect' originates from the Latin 'neglectus', the past participle of 'neglegere', meaning 'to disregard'. It evolved through Middle English, where it retained the sense of failing to care for something or someone.

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