stimolare

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin stimulāre.

Pronunciation

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

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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)
    • 1300s–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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