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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin incitāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in.t͡ʃiˈta.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: in‧ci‧tà‧re
Verb
incitàre (first-person singular present ìncito, first-person singular past historic incitài, past participle incitàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to incite, urge, spur, egg on
Usage notes
- Treccani marks io incìto as a variant pronunciation to io ìncito. Hoepli doesn't include this pronunciation. The modern-minded Canepari (Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana) marks it as less-preferred and aulica (archaic or literary), and the traditional-minded Dizionario di Ortografia e Pronuncia notes it as "less common today, but prevalent in the past and largely attested by the poets".
Conjugation
Further reading
- incitare in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- incitare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
incitāre
- inflection of incitō:
- present active infinitive
- second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative
Romanian
Etymology
From incita + -re.
Noun
incitare f (plural incitări)
- incitement
Declension
Spanish
Verb
incitare
- first/third-person singular future subjunctive of incitar