allegare

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See also: allegaré

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /al.leˈɡa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: al‧le‧gà‧re

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin alligāre. Doublet of alleare, which was borrowed from French.

Verb

allegàre (first-person singular present allégo or allègo[1], first-person singular past historic allegài, past participle allegàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to enclose, to attach; to unite
  2. (transitive) to set one's teeth on edge
  3. (intransitive, botany) to set (to change from flower to fruit) (of fruit)
  4. (transitive) to alloy (metals)
Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Latin allēgāre (to despatch); probably an early borrowing.

Verb

allegàre (first-person singular present allégo or allègo[1], first-person singular past historic allegài, past participle allegàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive, literary)

  1. to allege
  2. to produce, to advance, to adduce, to cite (evidence)
Conjugation

References

  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 allego in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

  • allegare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Verb

allegāre

  1. second-person singular present passive subjunctive of allegō

Verb

allēgāre

  1. inflection of allēgō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

Spanish

Verb

allegare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of allegar