tempestare
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From tempesta (“storm”) + -are (1st-conjugation verbal suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tempestàre (first-person singular present tempèsto, first-person singular past historic tempestài, past participle tempestàto, auxiliary avére)
- (impersonal) to storm [auxiliary avere]
- (intransitive, archaic) to be stormy or agitated (especially of a sea or lake) [auxiliary avere]
- (figurative, intransitive) to storm, to rage [auxiliary avere]
- Synonym: infuriare
- 1478, Luigi Pulci, “Canto decimosesto”, in Morgante[1], Felice Le Monnier, published 1855, page 325:
- E mentre che ’l caval furia e tempesta,
Volselo in aria con tanta destrezza,
Che non lo volse mai sì destro Ettorre- And, as the horse rages and storms, she turned it upwards with such dexterity, that Hector had never done so skillfully
- 1904, Luigi Pirandello, “16. Il ritratto di Minerva”, in Il fu Mattia Pascal [The Late Mattia Pascal][2], published 1919, page 272:
- Ritornai sul ponte, cheto, chinato. Mi tremavano le gambe, e il cuore mi tempestava in petto.
- I returned on the dock, quiet, bowing. My legs were shaking, and my heart was pounding in my chest.
- (intransitive) to deal forceful blows
- 1825, Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade [Iliad], Milan: Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, published 1840, Book 2, page 41, lines 344–347:
- […] Si contorce
E lágrima dirotto il manigoldo
Dell'aureo scettro al tempestar, che tutta
Gli fa la schiena rubiconda […]- The lowlife twitches and cries uncontrollably at the hitting of the golden scepter, which makes his whole back reddened
- (figurative, transitive) to forcefully hit
- Synonym: battere
- 1840, Alessandro Manzoni, “Capitolo XXXII”, in I promessi sposi[3], Tip. Guglielmini e Redaelli, page 607:
- gl’infelici eran tempestati di pietre, o, presi, venivan menati, a furia di popolo, in prigione
- The unfortunate ones were bombarded with stones, or, having been taken, were brought to prison by popular rage
- (obsolete, transitive) to furiously mess up
- Synonym: rovinare
- (transitive) to batter
- (hyperbolic, transitive) to bombard (e.g., with questions)
- Synonym: bombardare
- (transitive) to stud with gems
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of tempestàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- tempestare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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