bastare

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See also: bastaré

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *bastāre (“to be enough; to suffice”), possibly derived from a modification of Late Latin bastum (“stick, staff, rod, pole”), from Ancient Greek βαστάζω (bastázō, “to lift, carry, bear, support (weight)”). Compare Sicilian bastari, Spanish and Portuguese bastar, French baster.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baˈsta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ba‧stà‧re

Verb

bastàre (first-person singular present bàsto, first-person singular past historic bastài, past participle bastàto, auxiliary èssere)

  1. (intransitive) to be enough
  2. (intransitive) to be able
  3. (intransitive) to last; to keep
  4. (impersonal) to suffice

Conjugation

    Conjugation of bastàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive bastàre
auxiliary verb èssere gerund bastàndo
present participle bastànte past participle bastàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present bàsto bàsti bàsta bastiàmo bastàte bàstano
imperfect bastàvo bastàvi bastàva bastavàmo bastavàte bastàvano
past historic bastài bastàsti bastò bastàmmo bastàste bastàrono
future basterò basterài basterà basterémo basteréte basterànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present basterèi basterésti basterèbbe, basterébbe basterémmo basteréste basterèbbero, basterébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present bàsti bàsti bàsti bastiàmo bastiàte bàstino
imperfect bastàssi bastàssi bastàsse bastàssimo bastàste bastàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
bàsta bàsti bastiàmo bastàte bàstino
negative imperative non bastàre non bàsti non bastiàmo non bastàte non bàstino

Related terms

Descendants

  • → French: baster

References

  1. ^ “bastare” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN

Anagrams

Neapolitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bastare.

Verb

bastare

  1. Alternative form of vastare

References

  • Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “bastare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano

Spanish

Verb

bastare

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