atterrate

English

Etymology

Italian atterrare. Compare Late Latin atterrare (“to cast to earth”).

Verb

atterrate (third-person singular simple present atterrates, present participle atterrating, simple past and past participle atterrated)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To fill up with alluvial earth.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for atterrate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Italian

Verb

atterrate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of atterrare
  2. second-person plural imperative of atterrare
  3. feminine plural of atterrato
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