disfidare

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin disfīdāre, derived from Latin fīdō (“to trust, to rely upon”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /di.sfiˈda.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: di‧sfi‧dà‧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).

disfidàre (first-person singular present disfìdo, first-person singular past historic disfidài, past participle disfidàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, literary) to challenge (to a duel or competition)
    Synonym: sfidare
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) to distrust (someone)
    Synonym: diffidare
  3. (transitive, obsolete) to deem (a sick person) hopeless

Conjugation

    Conjugation of disfidàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive disfidàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund disfidàndo
present participle disfidànte past participle disfidàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present disfìdo disfìdi disfìda disfidiàmo disfidàte disfìdano
imperfect disfidàvo disfidàvi disfidàva disfidavàmo disfidavàte disfidàvano
past historic disfidài disfidàsti disfidò disfidàmmo disfidàste disfidàrono
future disfiderò disfiderài disfiderà disfiderémo disfideréte disfiderànno
conditional disfiderèi disfiderésti disfiderèbbe, disfiderébbe disfiderémmo disfideréste disfiderèbbero, disfiderébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present disfìdi disfìdi disfìdi disfidiàmo disfidiàte disfìdino
imperfect disfidàssi disfidàssi disfidàsse disfidàssimo disfidàste disfidàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
disfìda disfìdi disfidiàmo disfidàte disfìdino
negative imperative non disfidàre non disfìdi non disfidiàmo non disfidàte non disfìdino

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