posare

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See also: posaré

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin pausāre, perhaps influenced in meaning by Latin pōnere. Compare French poser.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /poˈza.re/, (traditional) /poˈsa.re/[1]
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: po‧sà‧re

Verb

posàre (first-person singular present pòso, first-person singular past historic posài, past participle posàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to put or lay down
    Synonyms: poggiare, appoggiare, deporre, depositare, collocare, piantare, adagiare, coricare, sdraiare
    Antonyms: sollevare, togliere, levare
  2. (transitive) to direct; to turn
    Synonym: rivolgere
    posare gli occhi su di lui ― to direct one's eyes at him
  3. (transitive, literary) to calm down; to placate
    Synonyms: acquietare, calmare, placare
  4. (also figurative, transitive) to lay or rest
    Synonyms: basarsi, reggersi, poggiare, fondarsi
    la loro tesi posa sui fatti sbagliati
    their argument rests on wrong facts
  5. (intransitive) to pose
    1. to place in a fixed position
      Synonym: stare in posa
      posare per un ritratto
      to pose for a portrait
    2. (intransitive) to behave affectedly (like); to act
      Synonyms: atteggiarsi, fingere, darsi un contegno
      posare a vittima ― to act like the victim
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    Synonym: riposare
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 28–30; 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:
      Poi ch’èi posato un poco il corpo lasso, ¶ ripresi via per la piaggia diserta, ¶ sì che ’l piè fermo sempre era ’l più basso.
      After my weary body I had rested, ⁠the way resumed I on the desert slope, ⁠so that the firm foot ever was the lower.

Conjugation

    Conjugation of posàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive posàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund posàndo
present participle posànte past participle posàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present pòso pòsi pòsa posiàmo posàte pòsano
imperfect posàvo posàvi posàva posavàmo posavàte posàvano
past historic posài posàsti posò posàmmo posàste posàrono
future poserò poserài poserà poserémo poseréte poserànno
conditional poserèi poserésti poserèbbe, poserébbe poserémmo poseréste poserèbbero, poserébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present pòsi pòsi pòsi posiàmo posiàte pòsino
imperfect posàssi posàssi posàsse posàssimo posàste posàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
pòsa pòsi posiàmo posàte pòsino
negative imperative non posàre non pòsi non posiàmo non posàte non pòsino

Derived terms

References

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

Anagrams

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Verb

posare

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