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

    Conjugation of sitìre (-ire) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive sitìre
auxiliary verb avére gerund sitèndo
present participle sitènte past participle sitìto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present sitìsco sitìsci sitìsce sitiàmo sitìte sitìscono
imperfect sitìvo sitìvi sitìva sitivàmo sitivàte sitìvano
past historic sitìi sitìsti sitì sitìmmo sitìste sitìrono
future sitirò sitirài sitirà sitirémo sitiréte sitirànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present sitirèi sitirésti sitirèbbe, sitirébbe sitirémmo sitiréste sitirèbbero, sitirébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present sitìsca sitìsca sitìsca sitiàmo sitiàte sitìscano
imperfect sitìssi sitìssi sitìsse sitìssimo sitìste sitìssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
sitìsci sitìsca sitiàmo sitìte sitìscano
negative imperative non sitìre non sitìsca non sitiàmo non sitìte non sitìscano

Related terms

Further reading

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

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Latin

Verb

sitīre

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