giovaneggiare
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From giovane (“young”) + -eggiare (verbalizing suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]giovaneggiàre (first-person singular present giovanéggio, first-person singular past historic giovaneggiài, past participle giovaneggiàto, auxiliary avére)
- (intransitive, literary, rare, ironic or humorous) to act youthfully [auxiliary avere]
- 1859, G. Brambilla, “Ozii letterarii di Gaetano Demarchi”, in Rivista Contemporanea[1], Tipografia Cerutti, Derossi e Dusso, page 180:
- L'amator di Batillo desidera bere, ma più […] giovaneggiare con la bella Afrodite.
- Bathyllus' lover wishes to drink, but more to be youthful with the beautiful Aphrodite.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of giovaneggiàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
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- Italian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Italian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂ey- (life)
- Italian terms suffixed with -eggiare
- Italian 5-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/are
- Rhymes:Italian/are/5 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian verbs
- Italian verbs ending in -are
- Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary
- Italian intransitive verbs
- Italian literary terms
- Italian rare terms
- Italian humorous terms
- Italian terms with quotations