saettare

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Italian

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Etymology

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From saetta +‎ -are, or from Latin sagittāre.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sa.etˈta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: sa‧et‧tà‧re

Verb

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saettàre (first-person singular present saétto, first-person singular past historic saettài, past participle saettàto, auxiliary (transitive, also intransitive in the general sense "to shoot, to cast, etc.") avére or (intransitive in the sense "to move quickly, to dart") èssere) (literary)

  1. (transitive) to shoot or strike with arrows or with thunderbolts
  2. (intransitive) to shoot arrows [auxiliary avere]
  3. (transitive, by extension) to shoot, to throw
  4. (usually intransitive, sports, soccer) to shoot (with a strong and flattened trajectory) [auxiliary avere]
  5. (transitive, figurative) to light up (of the sun)
  6. (intransitive, figurative) to radiate light (of the sun) [auxiliary avere]
  7. (transitive, figurative) to cast (a glance, a glare)
  8. (intransitive) to dart, to move quickly [auxiliary essere]
  9. (rare, impersonal) to flash with lightning [auxiliary avere or essere]

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ saettare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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