tempestare

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Italian

Etymology

From tempesta (“storm”) +‎ -are (1st-conjugation verbal suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tem.peˈsta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: tem‧pe‧stà‧re

Verb

tempestàre (first-person singular present tempèsto, first-person singular past historic tempestài, past participle tempestàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (impersonal) to storm
  2. (intransitive, archaic) to be stormy or agitated (especially of a sea or lake)
  3. (figurative, intransitive) to storm, to rage
    Synonym: infuriare
    • 1478, Luigi Pulci, “Canto decimosesto”, in Morgante‎, Felice Le Monnier, published 1855, page 325:
      E mentre che ’l caval furia e tempesta,
      Volselo in aria con tanta destrezza,
      Che non lo volse mai sì destro Ettorre
      And, as the horse rages and storms, she turned it upwards with such dexterity, that Hector had never done so skillfully
    • 1904, Luigi Pirandello, “16. Il ritratto di Minerva”, in Il fu Mattia Pascal [The Late Mattia Pascal]‎, published 1919, page 272:
      Ritornai sul ponte, cheto, chinato. Mi tremavano le gambe, e il cuore mi tempestava in petto.
      I returned on the dock, quiet, bowing. My legs were shaking, and my heart was pounding in my chest.
  4. (intransitive) to deal forceful blows
    • 1825, Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade [Iliad], Milan: Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, published 1840, Book 2, page 41, lines 344–347:
      […] Si contorce
      E lágrima dirotto il manigoldo
      Dell'aureo scettro al tempestar, che tutta
      Gli fa la schiena rubiconda […]
      The lowlife twitches and cries uncontrollably at the hitting of the golden scepter, which makes his whole back reddened
  5. (figurative, transitive) to forcefully hit
    Synonym: battere
    • 1840, Alessandro Manzoni, “Capitolo XXXII”, in I promessi sposi‎, Tip. Guglielmini e Redaelli, page 607:
      gl’infelici eran tempestati di pietre, o, presi, venivan menati, a furia di popolo, in prigione
      The unfortunate ones were bombarded with stones, or, having been taken, were brought to prison by popular rage
  6. (obsolete, transitive) to furiously mess up
    Synonym: rovinare
  7. (transitive) to batter
  8. (hyperbolic, transitive) to bombard (e.g., with questions)
    Synonym: bombardare
  9. (transitive) to stud with gems

Conjugation

    Conjugation of tempestàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive tempestàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund tempestàndo
present participle tempestànte past participle tempestàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present tempèsto tempèsti tempèsta tempestiàmo tempestàte tempèstano
imperfect tempestàvo tempestàvi tempestàva tempestavàmo tempestavàte tempestàvano
past historic tempestài tempestàsti tempestò tempestàmmo tempestàste tempestàrono
future tempesterò tempesterài tempesterà tempesterémo tempesteréte tempesterànno
conditional tempesterèi tempesterésti tempesterèbbe, tempesterébbe tempesterémmo tempesteréste tempesterèbbero, tempesterébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present tempèsti tempèsti tempèsti tempestiàmo tempestiàte tempèstino
imperfect tempestàssi tempestàssi tempestàsse tempestàssimo tempestàste tempestàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
tempèsta tempèsti tempestiàmo tempestàte tempèstino
negative imperative non tempestàre non tempèsti non tempestiàmo non tempestàte non tempèstino

Derived terms

Further reading

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

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