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insussurrare

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Italian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin īnsusurrāre (to insinuate).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /in.sus.surˈra.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: in‧sus‧sur‧rà‧re

Verb

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This Italian verb needs to be reviewed and cleaned up.
The definition(s) may be wrong or misleading, and important senses may be missing. The specified auxiliary may also be wrong. The remainder of the conjugation is probably correct for -are verbs but may be wrong in some particulars for -ire verbs (especially the present participle).

insussurràre (first-person singular present insussùrro, first-person singular past historic insussurrài, past participle insussurràto, auxiliary avére) (literary, rare)

  1. (transitive) to whisper in someone's ear
  2. (transitive, by extension) to covertly suggest or propose

Conjugation

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Further reading

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  • insussurrare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana