balenare

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Italian

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from balena (“whale”), due to a popular habit of indicating atmospherical phenomena using the names of sea monsters[1] +‎ -are (1st conjugation verbal suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba.leˈna.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ba‧le‧nà‧re

Verb

balenàre (first-person singular present baléno, first-person singular past historic balenài, past participle balenàto, auxiliary èssere or (alternatively when impersonal) avére) (intransitive)

  1. (impersonal) to flash with lightning
  2. (rare, personal) to flash with lightning (of the sky)
  3. to flash like lightning
    • 1980, Umberto Eco, “Primo giorno – Verso nona”, in Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose] (I grandi tascabili), Milan: Bompiani, published 1984, page 77:
      In corrispondenza del torrione occidentale si apriva un enorme forno per il pane che già balenava di fiamme rossastre.
      In correspondence of the western tower opened a huge bread oven that was already flashing reddish flames.
  4. (figurative) to appear suddenly (of thoughts and ideas)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of balenàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive balenàre
auxiliary verb èssere, avére1 gerund balenàndo
present participle balenànte past participle balenàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present baléno baléni baléna baleniàmo balenàte balénano
imperfect balenàvo balenàvi balenàva balenavàmo balenavàte balenàvano
past historic balenài balenàsti balenò balenàmmo balenàste balenàrono
future balenerò balenerài balenerà balenerémo baleneréte balenerànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present balenerèi balenerésti balenerèbbe, balenerébbe balenerémmo baleneréste balenerèbbero, balenerébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present baléni baléni baléni baleniàmo baleniàte balénino
imperfect balenàssi balenàssi balenàsse balenàssimo balenàste balenàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
baléna baléni baleniàmo balenàte balénino
negative imperative non balenàre non baléni non baleniàmo non balenàte non balénino

1Alternatively when impersonal.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ balenare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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