stentare
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Either from Vulgar Latin *extentāre, from Latin tentāre, or from s- (from Latin Latin ex-) + tentare (from Latin temptāre), or from Vulgar Latin *abstentāre, from Latin abstentum, from abstineō.
Cognate with Friulian stentâ, Lombard stentà, Piedmontese stenté.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]stentàre (first-person singular present stènto or sténto[1], first-person singular past historic stentài, past participle stentàto, auxiliary avére)
- (intransitive) to have difficulty [with a ‘in (doing something)’]
- (intransitive) to struggle (in life)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of stentàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ stento in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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- Italian terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Italian terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Italian terms inherited from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Italian/are
- Rhymes:Italian/are/3 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian verbs
- Italian verbs ending in -are
- Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary
- Italian intransitive verbs