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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)
- (transitive) to mortify
- to dismay; to embarrass or confuse someone with a reproach; to make someone feel sorry
- Synonym: umiliare
- Near-synonyms: imbarazzare, confondere
- to belittle, degrade, vilify, undervalue
- Synonyms: svilire, sminuire, sottovalutare, svalutare
- Antonym: sopravvalutare
- (dated) to bring an organism into a death-like state
- Antonyms: rivitalizzare, vivificare
- (medicine) to necrotize; to deeply alter organ fabrics
- Near-synonym: necrotizzare
- (rare, cooking) to become high (of meat)
- Synonym: frollare
- (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: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
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
- inflection of mortificō:
- present active infinitive
- second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative
Romanian
Etymology
From mortifica + -re.
Noun
mortificare f (plural mortificări)
- mortification
Declension
Spanish
Verb
mortificare
- first/third-person singular future subjunctive of mortificar