buttare

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Italian

Etymology

From Old French bouter (“to strike”), of Germanic origin. Compare Neapolitan vottare and Sicilian vottare.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /butˈta.re/
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  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: but‧tà‧re

Verb

buttàre (first-person singular present bùtto, first-person singular past historic buttài, past participle buttàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)

  1. (transitive) to throw, to toss, to fling, to chuck, to sling
    Synonyms: gettare, lanciare
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXI”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 43–45; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Là giù ’l buttò, e per lo scoglio duro ¶ si volse; e mai non fu mastino sciolto ¶ con tanta fretta a seguitar lo furo.
      He hurled him down, and over the hard crag turned round, and never was a mastiff loosened in so much hurry to pursue a thief.
  2. (transitive) to spout, to spurt, to pour, to discharge
    Synonyms: perdere, zampillare
  3. (transitive) to throw about, to waste
    Synonyms: sprecare, germogliare
  4. (transitive) to put out, to sprout, to shoot
  5. (transitive) to beat in
  6. (transitive) to put (the pasta) in boiling water
  7. (intransitive) to tend
    l'arancio butta al rosso ― the orange tends towards red
  8. (intransitive) to turn out (well or badly)
  9. (vulgar, slang) in the form "buttarlo" (to throw it): to penetrate sexually

Conjugation

    Conjugation of buttàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive buttàre
auxiliary verb avére1, èssere2 gerund buttàndo
present participle buttànte past participle buttàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present bùtto bùtti bùtta buttiàmo buttàte bùttano
imperfect buttàvo buttàvi buttàva buttavàmo buttavàte buttàvano
past historic buttài buttàsti buttò buttàmmo buttàste buttàrono
future butterò butterài butterà butterémo butteréte butterànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present butterèi butterésti butterèbbe, butterébbe butterémmo butteréste butterèbbero, butterébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present bùtti bùtti bùtti buttiàmo buttiàte bùttino
imperfect buttàssi buttàssi buttàsse buttàssimo buttàste buttàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
bùtta bùtti buttiàmo buttàte bùttino
negative imperative non buttàre non bùtti non buttiàmo non buttàte non bùttino

1Transitive.
2Intransitive.

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