pesare

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See also: pesaré

Italian

Etymology

From Latin pēnsāre (weigh, hang), whence also the doublet pensare 'think'. Compare French peser.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /peˈza.re/, (traditional) /peˈsa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: pe‧sà‧re

Verb

pesàre (first-person singular present péso, first-person singular past historic pesài, past participle pesàto, auxiliary (transitive or intransitive) avére or (alternatively when intransitive) èssere)

  1. (transitive, also figurative) to weigh (to measure the weight of)
  2. (intransitive) to weigh (a specific amount)
  3. (intransitive) to be heavy
  4. (intransitive) to weigh on, to burden
  5. (intransitive, figurative) to weigh on, to be tiresome or unpleasant to
  6. (intransitive, figurative) to weigh on, to be important or influential on
  7. (intransitive, figurative) to loom

Conjugation

Related terms

References

  1. ^ peso in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

Spanish

Verb

pesare

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