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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin refūtāre (“to oppose”, “to refute”). Doublet of rifiutare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /re.fuˈta.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: re‧fu‧tà‧re
Verb
refutàre (first-person singular present rèfuto, first-person singular past historic refutài, past participle refutàto, auxiliary avére)
- (obsolete, literary, transitive) Alternative form of rifiutare (“to refuse; to deny; to disown”):
- Synonym: rifiutare
- Antonym: accettare
1374, Francesco Petrarca, “O invidia, nemica di virtute [O Envy, Enemy of Virtue]”, in Il Canzoniere, Florence: Andrea Bettini, published 1858, page 138, lines 6–8:Troppo felice amante mi mostrasti ¶ a quella che miei preghi umili e casti ¶ gradì alcun tempo, or par ch'odj e refute.- You depicted me as too happy a lover ¶ to her who my humble and chaste requests ¶ once liked, and now seems to hate and reject.
- (rare) to refute
- Synonym: confutare
- Antonym: confermare
- La sua erronea tesi fu refutata. ― His wrong argument was refuted.
Conjugation
References
Latin
Verb
refūtāre
- inflection of refūtō:
- present active infinitive
- second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative
Romanian
Etymology
From refuta + -re.
Noun
refutare f (plural refutări)
- refutation
Declension
Spanish
Verb
refutare
- first/third-person singular future subjunctive of refutar