garrire

Italian

Etymology

From Latin garrīre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡarˈri.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: gar‧rì‧re

Verb

garrìre (first-person singular present garrìsco, first-person singular past historic garrìi, past participle garrìto, auxiliary avére) (intransitive)

  1. to chirp (of birds)
    • 13361374, Francesco Petrarca, “CCCX — Zephiro torna, e ’l bel tempo rimena”, in Il Canzoniere, line 3; republished as Daniele Ponchiroli, editor, Turin: publ. Giulio Einaudi, 1964:
      [] e garrir Progne e pianger Filomena, []
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
      (literally, “ [] Procne chirping and Philomela crying.”)
  2. (obsolete) to chatter
  3. to flutter, flap, wave (of flag)

Conjugation

Latin

Pronunciation

Verb

garrīre

  1. inflection of garriō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative