ausare

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /awˈza.re/, (traditional) /awˈsa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: au‧sà‧re

Etymology 1

Derived — perhaps through the influence of Old French auser or Old Occitan ausar — from Vulgar Latin *adūsāre, derived from ad- (to, towards) +‎ ūsus (use; practice; experience; habit) +‎ (1st-conjugation verbal suffix). Doublet of adusare.

Verb

ausàre (first-person singular present aùso, first-person singular past historic ausài, past participle ausàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive, obsolete)

  1. (rare) to make accustomed, to get used, to accustom, to habituate
    Synonyms: abituare, (literary) accostumare, (archaic) adusare, assuefare, avvezzare, istruire
    • 14th century, Franco Sacchetti, untitled work; republished as “Sermone X”, Sermoni, in Ottavio Gigli, editor, I sermoni evangelici, le lettere, ed altri scritti inediti o rari di Franco Sacchetti[1], Florence: Felice Le Monnier, 1857, page 29:
      E nota che secondo che i padri e le madri ausano e costumano i figliuoli, così vengono fatti. Vuolsi il fanciullo e la fanciulla ausare alla confessione []
      Notice how children act in the way their fathers and mothers got them used to. Boys and girls should be accustomed to confession []
      (literally, “And notice that depending that the fathers and the mothers habituate and accustom the children, so they are made. One wants to make the boy and the girl accustomed to confession [] ”)
  2. (rare) to frequent
    Synonym: frequentare
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Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Early Medieval Latin ausō (I dare) (present infinitive ausāre), frequentative form of Classical Latin audeō (I dare, venture, risk). Doublet of osare.

Verb

ausàre (first-person singular present àuso, first-person singular past historic ausài, past participle ausàto, unknown auxiliary) (intransitive, obsolete)

  1. to dare
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Anagrams

Neapolitan

Verb

ausare

  1. alternative form of usare (to use) (affixed with a-)

References

  • Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “ausare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano[2]