sitire

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Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sitīre (to thirst), derived from sitis (thirst, noun).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /siˈti.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: si‧tì‧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).

sitìre (first-person singular present sitìsco, first-person singular past historic sitìi, past participle sitìto, auxiliary avére) (poetic, obsolete)

  1. (intransitive) to thirst (to be thirsty)
  2. (figurative, transitive) to thirst for

Conjugation

Further reading

  • sitire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

sitīre

  1. inflection of sitiō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative