disirare

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /di.ziˈra.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: di‧si‧rà‧re

Verb

disiràre (first-person singular present disìro, first-person singular past historic disirài, past participle disiràto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (archaic) alternative form of desirare
    • 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XV”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 102–105; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      E 'l segnor mi parea, benigno e mite,
      risponder lei con viso temperato:
      «Che farem noi a chi mal ne disira,
      se quei che ci ama è per noi condannato?».
      And the lord seemed to me benign and mild
      to answer her with temperate aspect:
      "What shall we do to those who wish us ill,
      if he who loves us is by us condemned?"

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