intravedere

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Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from French entrevoir, from Vulgar Latin *intervidēre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in.tra.veˈde.re/
  • Rhymes: -ere
  • Hyphenation: in‧tra‧ve‧dé‧re

Verb

intravedére (first-person singular present intravédo, first-person singular past historic intravìdi, past participle intravìsto or (less popular) intravedùto, first-person singular future intravedrò, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to make out; to catch a glimpse of
    Synonym: scorgere
    • 2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:
      Allora, cominci a intravedere che tipo di mondo stiamo creando?
      Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating?
      (literally, “So, are you beginning to make out what type of world we are creating?”)
  2. to foresee; to have an inkling
    Synonyms: presagire, prevedere, intuire, indovinare

Conjugation

Further reading

  • intravedere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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