carpire

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See also: carpiré

Italian

Etymology

From Latin carpō (infinitive carpere).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /karˈpi.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: car‧pì‧re

Verb

carpìre (first-person singular present carpìsco, first-person singular past historic carpìi, past participle carpìto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. (literary) to strip off or away, often by deceit
  2. (figurative, by extension) to obtain with cunning or deceit; to do out of; to steal; to snatch
    • 2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:
      Per quanto astuti, non avevano ancora inventato una tecnica per carpire il pensiero di un altro essere umano.
      With all their cleverness they had never mastered the secret of finding out what another human being was thinking.
      (literally, “As astute as they are, they had not yet invented a technique to obtain the thought of another human being.”)
  3. (archaic or central Italy) to catch; to grab
    Synonyms: prendere, raccogliere; see also Thesaurus:afferrare

Conjugation

    Conjugation of carpìre (-ire) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive carpìre
auxiliary verb avére gerund carpèndo
present participle carpènte past participle carpìto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present carpìsco carpìsci carpìsce carpiàmo carpìte carpìscono
imperfect carpìvo carpìvi carpìva carpivàmo carpivàte carpìvano
past historic carpìi carpìsti carpì carpìmmo carpìste carpìrono
future carpirò carpirài carpirà carpirémo carpiréte carpirànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present carpirèi carpirésti carpirèbbe, carpirébbe carpirémmo carpiréste carpirèbbero, carpirébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present carpìsca carpìsca carpìsca carpiàmo carpiàte carpìscano
imperfect carpìssi carpìssi carpìsse carpìssimo carpìste carpìssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
carpìsci carpìsca carpiàmo carpìte carpìscano
negative imperative non carpìre non carpìsca non carpiàmo non carpìte non carpìscano

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