coartare
See also: coartaré
Italian
Etymology
Verb
coartàre (first-person singular present coàrto, first-person singular past historic coartài, past participle coartàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to coerce
- c. 1310, Dante Alighieri, “Paradiso - Canto XII”, in Divina Commedia:
- [M]a non fia da Casal né d'Acquasparta, / là onde vegnon tali alla scrittura, / ch'uno la fugge, e l'altro la coarta.
- But he won't be neither from Casal nor Acquasparta, there from which come some [that] to the scripture [= rules], one escaping it and the other one restricting it.
Conjugation
Conjugation of coartàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Further reading
- coartare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
coartāre
- inflection of coartō:
- present active infinitive
- second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative
Spanish
Verb
coartare
- first/third-person singular future subjunctive of coartar