auspicare
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin auspicārī.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aws.piˈka.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: au‧spi‧cà‧re
Verb
auspicàre (first-person singular present àuspico, first-person singular past historic auspicài, past participle auspicàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to hope (to/for/that) [with di (+ infinitive) or che (+ subjunctive clause)]
- Synonyms: augurare, augurarsi, far voti
- ha auspicato l’avvio di una democrazia ― he hoped for the beginning of a democracy
- auspico che vi arrida il successo
- I hope (that) you will succeed
- (literally, “that success will arrive to you”)
- il governo auspica di poter far progredire la trattativa
- the government hopes to continue the negotiations
- (ambitransitive, literary) to augur [auxiliary avere]
Conjugation
Conjugation of auspicàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms
Latin
Verb
auspicāre
- second-person singular present active imperative/indicative of auspicor