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Italian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *disdignāre, reshaping of Latin dēdignārī (“disdain, scorn”), derived from dignus (“worthy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.zdeɲˈɲa.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: di‧sde‧gnà‧re
Verb
disdegnàre (first-person singular present disdégno, first-person singular past historic disdegnài, past participle disdegnàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to disdain, contemn or scorn
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Further reading
- disdegnare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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