cantillare

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin cantillāre (“to hum; to chirp”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kan.tilˈla.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: can‧til‧là‧re

Verb

This Italian verb needs to be reviewed and cleaned up.
The definition(s) may be wrong or misleading, and important senses may be missing. The specified auxiliary may also be wrong. The remainder of the conjugation is probably correct for -are verbs but may be wrong in some particulars for -ire verbs (especially the present participle).

cantillàre (first-person singular present cantìllo, first-person singular past historic cantillài, past participle cantillàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) to hum
    Synonyms: canterellare, canticchiare

Conjugation

    Conjugation of cantillàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive cantillàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund cantillàndo
present participle cantillànte past participle cantillàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present cantìllo cantìlli cantìlla cantilliàmo cantillàte cantìllano
imperfect cantillàvo cantillàvi cantillàva cantillavàmo cantillavàte cantillàvano
past historic cantillài cantillàsti cantillò cantillàmmo cantillàste cantillàrono
future cantillerò cantillerài cantillerà cantillerémo cantilleréte cantillerànno
conditional cantillerèi cantillerésti cantillerèbbe, cantillerébbe cantillerémmo cantilleréste cantillerèbbero, cantillerébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present cantìlli cantìlli cantìlli cantilliàmo cantilliàte cantìllino
imperfect cantillàssi cantillàssi cantillàsse cantillàssimo cantillàste cantillàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
cantìlla cantìlli cantilliàmo cantillàte cantìllino
negative imperative non cantillàre non cantìlli non cantilliàmo non cantillàte non cantìllino

Derived terms

Further reading

  • cantillare in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

cantillāre

  1. inflection of cantillō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative
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