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evadere

to escape, to evade

verb eh-VAH-deh-reh Rare
People & Society Law

Origin: From Latin evadere, 'to go out, escape.'

Also means

to process, to fulfil (an order)

Usage Note

Evadere is a false friend: in everyday Italian it means 'to escape' (evadere di prigione) but in bureaucratic and commercial language it means 'to process or dispatch' (evadere una pratica = to deal with a file, evadere un ordine = to fulfil an order). The past participle is regular: evaso. Compound tenses take essere when intransitive (escape), avere when transitive (process).

Examples

"Il detenuto ha cercato di evadere."

Natural Translation

The prisoner tried to escape.

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