appetire
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ap.peˈti.re/
- Rhymes: -ire
- Hyphenation: ap‧pe‧tì‧re
Verb
appetìre (first-person singular present appetìsco, first-person singular past historic appetìi, past participle appetìto, auxiliary avére or (alternatively when intransitive) èssere)
- (transitive, literary) to desire, to crave (food, glory, honor, etc.)
- (intransitive, uncommon) to whet one's appetite, to appeal [with a ‘to someone’] (of food) [auxiliary avere or essere]
Conjugation
Conjugation of appetìre (-ire) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Alternatively when intransitive.