dipanare

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Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *dēpānāre, from Latin pānus (“thread wound upon the bobbin”), from Ancient Greek πῆνος (pênos). Compare Spanish devanar, Portuguese dobar, Catalan debanar, Sardinian demanare, Romanian depăna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /di.paˈna.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: di‧pa‧nà‧re

Verb

dipanàre (first-person singular present dipàno, first-person singular past historic dipanài, past participle dipanàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to wind (a skein) into a ball
    Synonyms: addipanare, sbrogliare, sdipanare, svolgere
    Antonym: ammatassare
    Near-synonyms: aggomitolare, raggomitolare
  2. (transitive, also figurative) to unravel, to disentangle (a skein, a case)
    Synonyms: chiarire, districare, risolvere, sbrogliare, sdipanare
    Antonyms: aggrovigliare, confondere
    dipanare la matassa ― to unravel the mystery (literally, “to unravel the skein”)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of dipanàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive dipanàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund dipanàndo
present participle dipanànte past participle dipanàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present dipàno dipàni dipàna dipaniàmo dipanàte dipànano
imperfect dipanàvo dipanàvi dipanàva dipanavàmo dipanavàte dipanàvano
past historic dipanài dipanàsti dipanò dipanàmmo dipanàste dipanàrono
future dipanerò dipanerài dipanerà dipanerémo dipaneréte dipanerànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present dipanerèi dipanerésti dipanerèbbe, dipanerébbe dipanerémmo dipaneréste dipanerèbbero, dipanerébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present dipàni dipàni dipàni dipaniàmo dipaniàte dipànino
imperfect dipanàssi dipanàssi dipanàsse dipanàssimo dipanàste dipanàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
dipàna dipàni dipaniàmo dipanàte dipànino
negative imperative non dipanàre non dipàni non dipaniàmo non dipanàte non dipànino

Further reading

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

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