attentarsi

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Italian

Etymology

From attentare +‎ -si.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /at.tenˈtar.si/
  • Rhymes: -arsi
  • Hyphenation: at‧ten‧tàr‧si

Verb

attentàrsi (first-person singular present mi attènto or mi atténto, first-person singular past historic mi attentài, past participle attentàto)

  1. (intransitive) to venture, dare
    Synonyms: ardire, arrischiarsi, osare
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio [The Divine Comedy: Purgatory] (paperback), Bompiani, published 2001, Canto XXV, page 378, lines 10–15:
      E quale il cicognin che leva l’ala ¶ per voglia di volare, e non s’attenta ¶ d’abbandonar lo nido, e giù la cala; ¶ tal era io con voglia accesa e spenta ¶ di dimandar, venendo infino a l’atto ¶ che fa colui ch’a dicer s’argomenta.
      And as the little stork that lifts its wing with a desire to fly, and does not venture to leave the nest, and lets it downward droop, even such was I, with the desire of asking kindled and quenched, unto the motion coming he makes who doth address himself to speak.

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