alenare

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See also: alenaré

Italian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Early Medieval Latin alēnāre, metathesized from Latin anhēlāre. Compare French halener. Doublet of anelare, a borrowing from Latin.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /a.leˈna.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: a‧le‧nà‧re

Verb

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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).

alenàre (first-person singular present aléno, first-person singular past historic alenài, past participle alenàto, auxiliary avére) (literary, archaic)

  1. (intransitive) to gasp
  2. to long for

Conjugation

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Further reading

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  • alenare in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • alenare in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • alenàre in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • alenare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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