indugiare
Italian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *indūtiāre, derived from Latin indūtiae (“truce; pause”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in.duˈd͡ʒa.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: in‧du‧già‧re
Verb
indugiàre (first-person singular present indùgio, first-person singular past historic indugiài, past participle indugiàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to delay; to postpone
- Synonyms: rimandare, posporre; see also Thesaurus:rinviare
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio [The Divine Comedy: Purgatory] (paperback), Bompiani, published 2001, Canto IV, page 61, lines 130–132:
- Prima convien che tanto il ciel m'aggiri / di fuor da essa, quanto fece in vita, / per ch'io indugiai al fine i buon sospiri
- I must wait outside as long as in my lifetime / the heavens wheeled around me / while I 'put off my sighs of penance to the end
- (intransitive) to linger [with in ‘in/at’]
- indugiare nei ricordi ― to linger in one's memories
- (transitive, literary) to hold back
- Synonyms: fermare, frenare; see also Thesaurus:trattenere
- (intransitive) to hesitate [auxiliary avere]
- Synonyms: esitare, tergiversare; see also Thesaurus:esitare
Conjugation
Conjugation of indugiàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)