disfidare
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Medieval Latin disfīdāre, derived from Latin fīdō (“to trust, to rely upon”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]disfidàre (first-person singular present disfìdo, first-person singular past historic disfidài, past participle disfidàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive, literary) to challenge (to a duel or competition)
- Synonym: sfidare
- (intransitive, obsolete) to distrust (someone)
- Synonym: diffidare
- (transitive, obsolete) to deem (a sick person) hopeless
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of disfidàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
[edit]Categories:
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Italian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰeydʰ-
- Italian terms borrowed from Medieval Latin
- Italian terms derived from Medieval Latin
- Italian 4-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/are
- Rhymes:Italian/are/4 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian verbs
- Italian verbs ending in -are
- Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary
- Italian transitive verbs
- Italian literary terms
- Italian intransitive verbs
- Italian terms with obsolete senses