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posare

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See also: posaré

Italian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Late Latin pausāre, perhaps influenced in meaning by Latin pōnere. Compare French poser.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /poˈza.re/, (traditional) /poˈsa.re/[1]
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: po‧sà‧re

Verb

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posàre (first-person singular present pòso, first-person singular past historic posài, past participle posàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to put or lay down
    Synonyms: poggiare, appoggiare, deporre, depositare, collocare, piantare, adagiare, coricare, sdraiare
    Antonyms: sollevare, togliere, levare
  2. (transitive) to direct; to turn
    Synonym: rivolgere
    posare gli occhi su di luito direct one's eyes at him
  3. (transitive, literary) to calm down; to placate
    Synonyms: acquietare, calmare, placare
  4. (also figurative, transitive) to lay or rest [with su ‘on’]
    Synonyms: basarsi, reggersi, poggiare, fondarsi
    la loro tesi posa sui fatti sbagliati
    their argument rests on wrong facts
  5. (intransitive) to pose
    1. to place in a fixed position
      Synonym: stare in posa
      posare per un ritratto
      to pose for a portrait
    2. (intransitive) to behave affectedly (like); to act [with a ‘like’]
      Synonyms: atteggiarsi, fingere, darsi un contegno
      posare a vittimato act like the victim
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    Synonym: riposare
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎[1], lines 28–30; 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:
      Poi ch’èi posato un poco il corpo lasso, ¶ ripresi via per la piaggia diserta, ¶ sì che ’l piè fermo sempre era ’l più basso.
      After my weary body I had rested, ⁠the way resumed I on the desert slope, ⁠so that the firm foot ever was the lower.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ posare in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

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Spanish

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Verb

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posare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of posar