presidiare

Italian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pre.siˈdja.re/[1][2], /pre.ziˈdja.re/[1]
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: pre‧si‧dià‧re

Verb

presidiàre (first-person singular present presìdio, first-person singular past historic presidiài, past participle presidiàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, military) to garrison
  2. (transitive) to guard
  3. (transitive, figurative, uncommon) to defend, to protect

Conjugation

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 presidio in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  2. ^ presidiare in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2025

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