disirare

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Italian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /di.ziˈra.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: di‧si‧rà‧re

Verb[edit]

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).

disiràre (first-person singular present disìro, first-person singular past historic disirài, past participle disiràto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of desirare
    • early-mid 1310smid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XV”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory]‎[1], lines 102–105; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      E 'l segnor mi parea, benigno e mite,
      risponder lei con viso temperato:
      «Che farem noi a chi mal ne disira,
      se quei che ci ama è per noi condannato?».
      And the lord seemed to me benign and mild
      to answer her with temperate aspect:
      "What shall we do to those who wish us ill,
      if he who loves us is by us condemned?"

Conjugation[edit]