intimare

Borrowed from Late Latin intimāre.

• IPA^(key): /in.tiˈma.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: in‧ti‧mà‧re

intimàre (first-person singular present ìntimo or (traditional, careful style) intìmo^[1], first-person singular past historic intimài, past participle intimàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

1. (literary) to tell, communicate, notify; to declare, proclaim
   • 1811, Ugo Foscolo, “Scena I [Scene 1]”, Atto primo [First act], in Ajace; republished in Opere complete di Ugo Foscolo, volume 2, Naples, 1860, page 110:

     Ite: a Priamo intimate che alla tregua
     Un dì rimane; e che al cader del sole
     Sciolto son io dal giuramento

     Go! Communicate to Priam that the truce only has one day left; and that, at sunset, I will be unbound from my oath

   • 1840–1842, Alessandro Manzoni, chapter IV, in I promessi sposi‎, Milan: Guglielmini e Redaelli, published in I promessi sposi - Storia della colonna infame:

     Appena compita la cerimonia della vestizione, il guardiano gl’intimò che sarebbe andato a fare il suo noviziato a ***, sessanta miglia lontano, e che partirebbe all’indomani.

     As soon as the clothing ceremony was completed, the guardian told him that he would have gone to spend his novitiate in , sixty miles away, and that he would leave the following day.

2. (literary) to predict, foresee, forbode
   • 1809 May 2, my eye is getting worse, and I take advantage of the assistance of Scarpa, who predicted for me a slow — although very certain — recovery