asservire

Italian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /as.serˈvi.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: as‧ser‧vì‧re

Verb

asservìre (first-person singular present asservìsco, first-person singular past historic asservìi, past participle asservìto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to enslave
  2. (transitive) to subdue (the spirit)
  3. (transitive, figurative) to subordinate
  4. (transitive, mechanical engineering) to link (two elements of a mechanism)

Conjugation

Latin

Verb

asservīre

  1. present active infinitive of asserviō