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Italian
Etymology
From saetta + -are, or from Latin sagittāre.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa.etˈta.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: sa‧et‧tà‧re
Verb
saettàre (first-person singular present saétto, first-person singular past historic saettài, past participle saettàto, auxiliary (transitive, also intransitive in the general sense "to shoot, to cast, etc.") avére or (intransitive in the sense "to move quickly, to dart") èssere) (literary)
- (transitive) to shoot or strike with arrows or with thunderbolts
- (intransitive) to shoot arrows
- (transitive, by extension) to shoot, to throw
- (usually intransitive, sports, soccer) to shoot (with a strong and flattened trajectory)
- (transitive, figurative) to light up (of the sun)
- (intransitive, figurative) to radiate light (of the sun)
- (transitive, figurative) to cast (a glance, a glare)
- (intransitive) to dart, to move quickly
- (rare, impersonal) to flash with lightning
Conjugation
References
- ^ saettare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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