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disfare

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Italian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Early Medieval Latin disfacere. By surface analysis, dis- +‎ fare.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /disˈfa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: di‧sfà‧re

Verb

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disfàre (first-person singular present (now less common) disfàccio or (archaic or Tuscan) disfò or (sometimes proscribed, now more common) dìsfo, first-person singular past historic disféci, past participle disfàtto, first-person singular imperfect disfacévo, first-person singular future (now less common) disfarò or (sometimes proscribed, now more common) disferò, first-person singular subjunctive (now less common) disfàccia or (sometimes proscribed, now more common) dìsfi, second-person singular imperative (now less common) disfài or (ditto) disfà' or (sometimes proscribed, now more common) dìsfa, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to undo, untie
  2. (transitive) to take to pieces; disassemble
  3. (transitive) to unpack
  4. (transitive) to destroy, smash

Usage notes

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  • Similarly to soddisfare, nowadays, this verb is generally conjugated as if it were a regular -are verb in most of its inflection; prescriptively, it should be conjugated like irregular fare with dis- prefixed.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ disfare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Further reading

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  • disfare in Treccani.it – Sinonimi e Contrari (2003), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • DISFARE, SODDISFARE in Treccani.it – La grammatica italiana (2012), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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