abbadare

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Italian

Etymology

From a- +‎ badare.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ab.baˈda.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ab‧ba‧dà‧re

Verb

abbadàre (first-person singular present abbàdo, first-person singular past historic abbadài, past participle abbadàto, auxiliary avére) (archaic, literary)

  1. (intransitive) Alternative form of badare
    • 1840, Alessandro Manzoni, “Capitolo XV [Chapter 15]”, in I promessi sposi, Tip. Guglielmini e Redaelli, page 297:
      “E non crediate che la giustizia abbia perduta la sua forza.” “Io? per carità! io non credo nulla: abbado a far l’oste.”
      "And don't you think justice has lost its strength." "Me? For goodness' sake, I'm not thinking anything, I concern myself with being a host."
    • 1904, Luigi Pirandello, “15. Io e l'ombra mia [15. My shadow and I]”, in Il fu Mattia Pascal [The Late Mattia Pascal]‎, published 1919, page 227:
      Mi è avvenuto più volte, svegliandomi nel cuor della notte [] , mi è avvenuto di provare al bujo, nel silenzio, una strana meraviglia, uno strano impaccio al ricordo di qualche cosa fatta durante il giorno, alla luce, senz’abbadarci
      It has happened to me several times, when waking up in the middle of the night, I experienced, in the darkness and silence, a strange astonishment, a strange bother at the memory of some thing done during the day, in the light, without paying attention to it.

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Further reading

  • abbadare in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • abbadare in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • abbadàre in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • abbadare in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
  • abbadare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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