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Italian
Etymology
From Late Latin ausāre, frequentative from Latin audēre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oˈza.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: o‧sà‧re
Verb
osàre (first-person singular present òso, first-person singular past historic osài, past participle osàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to dare, venture, used with the infinitive (sometimes preceded by di)
- Synonyms: ardire, arrischiarsi (a), azzardarsi (a)
1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XV”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 43–45; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:Io non osava scender de la strada
per andar par di lui; ma ’l capo chino
tenea com’ uom che reverente vada.- I did not dare to go down from the road level to walk with him; but my head bowed I held as one who goes reverently.
1763, Giuseppe Parini, “Il mattino [Morning]”, in Opere dell'abate Giuseppe Parini - Volume primo [Works of abbot Giuseppe Parini - Volume one], Venice: Giacomo Storti, published 1803, page 106:Pera colui che prima osò la mano
Armata alzar su l’innocente agnella,
E sul placido bue […]- May the one who first dared lay his armed hand on the innocent lamb and the peaceful ox die
- (intransitive) to dare (to have courage)
- Synonyms: ardire, arrischiarsi
- Bisogna saper osare ― One must learn to be daring (literally, “It is necessary to be able to dare”)
- (transitive) to risk, attempt, followed by an object
- Synonyms: provare (a), tentare (di)
- (transitive) to dare, used to attenuate the force of a statement or request
- Oserei dire che... ― I would dare say that...
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Further reading
- osare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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Spanish
Verb
osare
- first/third-person singular future subjunctive of osar