germinare

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See also: germinaré

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin germināre. Doublet of germogliare.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒer.miˈna.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ger‧mi‧nà‧re

Verb

germinàre (first-person singular present gèrmino, first-person singular past historic germinài, past participle germinàto, auxiliary (intransitive) èssere or (transitive or alternatively when intransitive) avére)

  1. (intransitive) to germinate
    • 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXIII”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎, lines 7–9; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Nel ventre tuo si raccese l'amore,
      per lo cui caldo ne l’etterna pace
      così è germinato questo fiore.
      Within thy womb rekindled was the love, by heat of which in the eternal peace after such wise this flower has germinated.
  2. (transitive, literary, rare) to cause to germinate, to produce
  3. (transitive, figurative) to cause

Conjugation

    Conjugation of germinàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive germinàre
auxiliary verb èssere1, avére2 gerund germinàndo
present participle germinànte past participle germinàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present gèrmino gèrmini gèrmina germiniàmo germinàte gèrminano
imperfect germinàvo germinàvi germinàva germinavàmo germinavàte germinàvano
past historic germinài germinàsti germinò germinàmmo germinàste germinàrono
future germinerò germinerài germinerà germinerémo germineréte germinerànno
conditional germinerèi germinerésti germinerèbbe, germinerébbe germinerémmo germineréste germinerèbbero, germinerébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present gèrmini gèrmini gèrmini germiniàmo germiniàte gèrminino
imperfect germinàssi germinàssi germinàsse germinàssimo germinàste germinàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
gèrmina gèrmini germiniàmo germinàte gèrminino
negative imperative non germinàre non gèrmini non germiniàmo non germinàte non gèrminino

1Intransitive.
2Transitive or alternatively when intransitive.

Further reading

  • germinare in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • germinare in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • germinare in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • germinàre in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • germinare in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
  • germinare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Verb

germināre

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

Romanian

Etymology

From germina +‎ -re.

Noun

germinare f (plural germinări)

  1. germination

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative germinare germinarea germinări germinările
genitive-dative germinări germinării germinări germinărilor
vocative germinare, germinareo germinărilor

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xeɾmiˈnaɾe/
  • Rhymes: -aɾe
  • Syllabification: ger‧mi‧na‧re

Verb

germinare

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