bistentare

Italian

Etymology

Likely related to stentare (to have difficulty).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bis.tenˈta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: bi‧sten‧tà‧re

Verb

bistentàre (first-person singular present bistènto or bisténto[1], first-person singular past historic bistentài, past participle bistentàto, auxiliary avére) (obsolete, intransitive)

  1. to suffer greatly
  2. to wait painfully, to linger uneasily

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ stento in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

  • bistentare in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication