mortificare

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See also: mortificaré

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mor.ti.fiˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: mor‧ti‧fi‧cà‧re

Verb

mortificàre (first-person singular present mortìfico, first-person singular past historic mortificài, past participle mortificàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to mortify
    1. to dismay; to embarrass or confuse someone with a reproach; to make someone feel sorry
      Synonym: umiliare
      Near-synonyms: imbarazzare, confondere
    2. to belittle, degrade, vilify, undervalue
      Synonyms: svilire, sminuire, sottovalutare, svalutare
      Antonym: sopravvalutare
    3. (dated) to bring an organism into a death-like state
      Antonyms: rivitalizzare, vivificare
      1. (medicine) to necrotize; to deeply alter organ fabrics
        Near-synonym: necrotizzare
      2. (rare, cooking) to become high (of meat)
        Synonym: frollare
    4. (religion) to repress stimuli and desires with corporal and spiritual penance
      • 1980, Umberto Eco, “Primo giorno - Sesta”, in Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose] (I grandi tascabili), Milan: Bompiani, published 1984, page 64:
        [S]ai con quale […] feroce sete di penitenza ho tentato di mortificare in me i palpiti della carne, per farmi una sola trasparenza all'amore di Gesù Crocifisso...
        You know how ferocious was the thirst for penitence through which I tried to suppress my carnal palpitations, to have a sole clearness of Jesus Crucified's love...

Conjugation

    Conjugation of mortificàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive mortificàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund mortificàndo
present participle mortificànte past participle mortificàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present mortìfico mortìfichi mortìfica mortifichiàmo mortificàte mortìficano
imperfect mortificàvo mortificàvi mortificàva mortificavàmo mortificavàte mortificàvano
past historic mortificài mortificàsti mortificò mortificàmmo mortificàste mortificàrono
future mortificherò mortificherài mortificherà mortificherémo mortificheréte mortificherànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present mortificherèi mortificherésti mortificherèbbe, mortificherébbe mortificherémmo mortificheréste mortificherèbbero, mortificherébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present mortìfichi mortìfichi mortìfichi mortifichiàmo mortifichiàte mortìfichino
imperfect mortificàssi mortificàssi mortificàsse mortificàssimo mortificàste mortificàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
mortìfica mortìfichi mortifichiàmo mortificàte mortìfichino
negative imperative non mortificàre non mortìfichi non mortifichiàmo non mortificàte non mortìfichino

Related terms

Further reading

  • mortificare in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • mortificare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • mortificare in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)

Latin

Verb

mortificāre

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

Romanian

Etymology

From mortifica +‎ -re.

Noun

mortificare f (plural mortificări)

  1. mortification

Declension

Declension of mortificare
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (o) mortificare mortificarea (niște) mortificări mortificările
genitive/dative (unei) mortificări mortificării (unor) mortificări mortificărilor
vocative mortificare, mortificareo mortificărilor

Spanish

Verb

mortificare

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