pretestare

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Italian

Etymology

From pretesto (pretext) +‎ -are (1st conjugation verbal suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pre.teˈsta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: pre‧te‧stà‧re

Verb

This Italian verb needs to be reviewed and cleaned up.
The definition(s) may be wrong or misleading, and important senses may be missing. The specified auxiliary may also be wrong. The remainder of the conjugation is probably correct for -are verbs but may be wrong in some particulars for -ire verbs (especially the present participle).

pretestàre (first-person singular present pretèsto, first-person singular past historic pretestài, past participle pretestàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (literary) to employ (something) as a pretext
    • essa pretestava non si sa che intolleranza dell’umido per evitare di lavare i piatti
      She was employing some unspecified intolerance to moisture as a pretext to not wash the dishes
  2. (forensics) to attribute a pathology to a false cause

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