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assediare

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Italian

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Etymology

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Perhaps a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin assediāre, reshaping of Classical Latin obsidēre.[1] Alternatively, derived from assedio (siege) +‎ -are (1st-conjugation verbal suffix).[2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /as.seˈdja.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: as‧se‧dià‧re

Verb

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assediàre (first-person singular present assèdio, first-person singular past historic assediài, past participle assediàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. (military) to besiege, to lay siege to
    Synonym: cingere d'assedio
    • 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Come Iulio Ascanio figliuolo d’Enea fu re apresso lui, e li re e signori che discesono di sua progenia. [How Julius Ascanius, son of Aeneas, became king after him; and the kings and lords descended from his progeny]” (chapter 24), Libro primo [First book], in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle]‎[1], published 1991:
      [] discesero molti grandi e possenti re e signori; intra gli altri il valente Brenno e Bellino fratelli, i quali per loro potenzia sconfissero gli Romani e assediaro Roma, e presolla infino a Campidoglio
      [] many great and powerful lords came, among which the valiant brothers Brennus and Bellinus, who — through their power — defeated the Romans, and laid siege to Rome, and conquered it up to the Capitolium
    • 1856, Carlo Troya, chapter XLIII (chapter 43), in Del veltro allegorico de' Ghibellini: con altre scritture intorno alla Divina Commedia di Dante; republished in Costantino Panigada, editor, Del veltro allegorico di Dante e altri saggi storici[2], Bari: Laterza, 1932, page 81:
      Poco innanzi che Arrigo assediasse Firenze, maggiori moti che in Genova si erano suscitati contro esso e Can della Scala in Padova, impaziente di aver perduto Vicenza, ed unita con Trevigi donde i signori di Camino furono discacciati
      Shortly before Henry besieged Florence, uprisings — greater than those in Genoa — took place against him and Can della Scala in Padua, unable to accept having lost Vicenza, and joined together with Treviso, wherefrom the lords of Camino were exiled
  2. (figurative) to weigh on, to trouble
  3. (figurative) to beset, to surround
    Synonym: circondare
  4. (figurative) to nag, to pester
    Synonym: assillare

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ assediare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  2. ^ “assediare”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 1 a–balb, UTET, 1966, page 752

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