dare il via

Italian

Etymology

Literally, “to give the go-ahead”.

Verb

dàre il via (first-person singular present (with syntactic gemination after the verb) dò il via, first-person singular past historic dièdi il via or diédi il via or détti il via or (traditional) dètti il via, past participle dàto il via, first-person singular future darò il via, first-person singular subjunctive dìa il via, first-person singular imperfect subjunctive déssi il via, second-person singular imperative dài il via or dà' il via, auxiliary avére)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dare,‎ il,‎ via.
   • 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 27, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:

     Con il rombo dell'elicottero sullo sfondo... diedi ufficialmente il via alla missione...

     With the roar of the helicopter in the background... I officially gave the go-ahead for the Abbottabad mission...

     (literally, “With the roar of the helicopter in the background... I officially gave the go-ahead to the mission...”)

2. (figurative, by extension, transitive with a) to set in motion; to start

Anagrams

• dilaverai, validerai