stimolare

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin stimulāre.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /sti.moˈla.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: sti‧mo‧là‧re
  • (file)

Verb[edit]

stimolàre (first-person singular present stìmolo, first-person singular past historic stimolài, past participle stimolàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to stimulate
  2. (archaic) to bite (of insects)
    • mid 1300smid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Inferno [Hell]‎[1], lines 63–66; 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:
      Questi sciaurati, che mai non fur vivi ¶ erano ignudi e stimolati molto ¶ da mosconi e da vespe ch'eran ivi.
      These wretches, who never had been alive were naked and bitten a great deal by mosquitoes and by wasps which were in that place.

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