dementare

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin dēmentāre, derived from Latin mēns (“mind, intellect”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /de.menˈta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: de‧men‧tà‧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).

dementàre (first-person singular present demènto, first-person singular past historic dementài, past participle dementàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, literary) to drive crazy or drive mad

Conjugation

    Conjugation of dementàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive dementàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund dementàndo
present participle dementànte past participle dementàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present demènto demènti demènta dementiàmo dementàte demèntano
imperfect dementàvo dementàvi dementàva dementavàmo dementavàte dementàvano
past historic dementài dementàsti dementò dementàmmo dementàste dementàrono
future dementerò dementerài dementerà dementerémo dementeréte dementerànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present dementerèi dementerésti dementerèbbe, dementerébbe dementerémmo dementeréste dementerèbbero, dementerébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present demènti demènti demènti dementiàmo dementiàte demèntino
imperfect dementàssi dementàssi dementàsse dementàssimo dementàste dementàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
demènta demènti dementiàmo dementàte demèntino
negative imperative non dementàre non demènti non dementiàmo non dementàte non demèntino

Further reading

  • dementare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

dēmentāre

  1. inflection of dēmentō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

Spanish

Verb

dementare

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

Swedish

Adjective

dementare

  1. comparative degree of dement
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