buttare
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French bouter (“to strike”), of Germanic origin. Compare Neapolitan vottare and Sicilian vottare.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]buttàre (first-person singular present bùtto, first-person singular past historic buttài, past participle buttàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)
- (transitive) to throw, to toss, to fling, to chuck, to sling
- 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXI”, in Inferno[1], lines 43–45; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata[2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- Là giù ’l buttò, e per lo scoglio duro ¶ si volse; e mai non fu mastino sciolto ¶ con tanta fretta a seguitar lo furo.
- He hurled him down, and over the hard crag turned round, and never was a mastiff loosened in so much hurry to pursue a thief.
- (transitive) to spout, to spurt, to pour, to discharge
- Synonyms: perdere, zampillare
- (transitive) to throw about, to waste
- Synonyms: sprecare, germogliare
- (transitive) to put out, to sprout, to shoot
- (transitive) to beat in
- (transitive) to put (the pasta) in boiling water
- (intransitive) to tend [with a ‘towards something’] [auxiliary essere]
- l'arancio butta al rosso ― the orange [color] tends towards red
- (intransitive) to turn out (well or badly) [auxiliary essere]
- (vulgar, slang) in the form "buttarlo" (to throw it): to penetrate sexually
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of buttàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive | buttàre | |||||
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auxiliary verb | avére1, èssere2 | gerund | buttàndo | |||
present participle | buttànte | past participle | buttàto | |||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | bùtto | bùtti | bùtta | buttiàmo | buttàte | bùttano |
imperfect | buttàvo | buttàvi | buttàva | buttavàmo | buttavàte | buttàvano |
past historic | buttài | buttàsti | buttò | buttàmmo | buttàste | buttàrono |
future | butterò | butterài | butterà | butterémo | butteréte | butterànno |
conditional | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | butterèi | butterésti | butterèbbe, butterébbe | butterémmo | butteréste | butterèbbero, butterébbero |
subjunctive | che io | che tu | che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa | che noi | che voi | che loro, che essi/che esse |
present | bùtti | bùtti | bùtti | buttiàmo | buttiàte | bùttino |
imperfect | buttàssi | buttàssi | buttàsse | buttàssimo | buttàste | buttàssero |
imperative | — | tu | Lei | noi | voi | Loro |
bùtta | bùtti | buttiàmo | buttàte | bùttino | ||
negative imperative | non buttàre | non bùtti | non buttiàmo | non buttàte | non bùttino |
1Transitive.
2Intransitive.
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