pretestare
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pretesto (“pretext”) + -are (1st conjugation verbal suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]pretestàre (first-person singular present pretèsto, first-person singular past historic pretestài, past participle pretestàto, auxiliary avére)
- (literary) to employ (something) as a pretext
- essa pretestava non si sa che intolleranza dell’umido per evitare di lavare i piatti
- She was employing some unspecified intolerance to moisture as a pretext to not wash the dishes
- (forensics) to attribute a pathology to a false cause
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of pretestàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)