soppesare
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From so- + pesare (“to weigh”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]soppesàre (first-person singular present soppéso, first-person singular past historic soppesài, past participle soppesàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)
- to weigh in one's hands
- to weigh up
- 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 27, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
- Sapevo che non avrei potuto trovare un metodo migliore per valutarle né avrei potuto circondarmi di persone migliori che mi aiutassero a soppesarle.
- I knew that I could not have come up with a better process to evaluate those odds or surrounded myself with a better mix of people to help me weigh them.
- (literally, “I knew that I could not have found a better method to evaluate them nor could I have surrounded myself with better people who could help me weigh them up.”)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of soppesàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
References
[edit]- ^ soppeso in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)