sconvenire
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sconvenìre (first-person singular present sconvèngo, first-person singular past historic sconvénni or sconvènni, past participle sconvenùto, first-person singular future sconverrò, auxiliary èssere) (literary, intransitive, rare outside of a reflexive construction) [auxiliary essere]
- to be inappropriate, to be unsuitable (usually in a moral sense) [with a ‘to/for’]
- 1826, Francesco Milizia, Opere complete di Francesco Milizia risguardanti le belle arti, page 175:
- Poteva allora convenire in una città repubblicana, quanto ora sconviene nella monarchia
- It could then have been appropriate in a republican city, what is now inappropriate in a monarcy
- to be in disagreement, to conflict
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of sconvenìre (-ire; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- sconvenire in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- sconvenire in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- sconvenìre in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- sconvenire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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