destarsi

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /deˈstar.si/
  • Rhymes: -arsi
  • Hyphenation: de‧stàr‧si

Verb

destàrsi (first-person singular present mi désto or mi dèsto, first-person singular past historic mi destài, past participle destàto)

  1. reflexive of destare
  2. (intransitive) to wake up
    Synonyms: ridestarsi, svegliarsi, risvegliarsi, alzarsi
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto VI, lines 94–96:
      E 'l duca disse a me: «Più non si desta ¶ di qua dal suon de l'angelica tromba, ¶ quando verrà la nimica podesta [...]»
      And the Guide said to me: "He wakes no more ¶ this side the sound of the angelic trumpet; ¶ when shall approach the hostile Potentate"
  3. to get out of a rut; to come back to activity

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