intimare

Borrowed from Late Latin intimāre.

• IPA^(key): /in.tiˈma.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: in‧ti‧mà‧re

intimàre (first-person singular present ìntimo or (traditional, careful style) intìmo^[1], first-person singular past historic intimài, past participle intimàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

1. (literary) to tell, communicate, notify; to declare, proclaim
   • 1811, Ugo Foscolo, “Scena I [Scene 1]”, Atto primo [First act], in Ajace; republished in Opere complete di Ugo Foscolo, volume 2, Naples, 1860, page 110:

     Ite: a Priamo intimate che alla tregua
     Un dì rimane; e che al cader del sole
     Sciolto son io dal giuramento

     Go! Communicate to Priam that the truce only has one day left; and that, at sunset, I will be unbound from my oath

   • 1840–1842, Alessandro Manzoni, chapter IV, in I promessi sposi‎^[1], Milan: Guglielmini e Redaelli, published in I promessi sposi - Storia della colonna infame:

     Appena compita la cerimonia della vestizione, il guardiano gl’intimò che sarebbe andato a fare il suo noviziato a ***, sessanta miglia lontano, e che partirebbe all’indomani.

     As soon as the clothing ceremony was completed, the guardian told him that he would have gone to spend his novitiate in […] , sixty miles away, and that he would leave the following day.

2. (literary) to predict, foresee, forbode
   • 1809 May 2, [untitled]; republished as “A Pietro Borsieri”, Lettere [Letters], in Opere edite e postume di Ugo Foscolo, volume 2, Florence: Felice Le Monnier, 1862, page 351:

     […] il mio occhio peggiora, e mi valgo dell’assistenza di Scarpa, che m’intimò tarda, benchè certissima, guarigione

     […] my eye is getting worse, and I take advantage of the assistance of Scarpa, who predicted for me a slow — although very certain — recovery

3. (literary, obsolete, rare) to inform
4. to order in a peremptory or imperious way

   Synonyms: ingiungere, ordinare, imporre, dettare, comandare, esigere

   • 1561, Francesco Guicciardini, chapter I (chapter 1), Libro XVIII [Book 18], in Storia d'Italia [History of Italy]‎^[2]; republished, Costantino Panigada, editor, volume 1, Bari: Gius. Laterza & figli, 1929, page 104:

     Commesse anche il re di Inghilterra a maestro Rossello che intimasse al viceré e al duca di Borbone una sospensione d’armi

     The king of England also entrusted master Rossello with ordering the viceroy, and the duke of Bourbon to suspend the conflict

5. (obsolete) to inflict, to impose (a penalty or punishment)
6. to threaten, portend
7. (law, rare) to start or institute (a proceeding)
8. (law) to formally notify (in the name of authority)
9. to summon, convene
10. to declare (war)
11. to establish, fix (the day of an anniversary)
12. (obsolete, literary) to proclaim the start of (a celebration)
13. (obsolete, rare) to organize, prepare
14. (obsolete) to summon through an order or an invitation
15. (obsolete, very rare) to register indelibly
16. (obsolete, very rare) to provoke, cause
17. (obsolete, very rare) to incorporate

• antimeri, imitarne, inermità, intimerà, mentirai, minareti, rimenati, terminai

intimāre

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

From intima +‎ -re.

intimare f (plural intimări)

1. intimation

intimare

1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of intimar

intimare

1. comparative degree of intim

intimare

1. comparative degree of intimt