riflettere
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /riˈflɛt.te.re/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɛttere
- Hyphenation: ri‧flèt‧te‧re
Verb
riflèttere (first-person singular present riflètto, first-person singular past historic riflettéi or (less common) riflèssi, past participle ("to reflect, to mirror outwardly") riflèsso or ("to consider") riflettùto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to reflect
- Synonym: rispecchiare
- (transitive, figurative) to mirror outwardly, to reflect (an emotion)
- Synonym: rispecchiare
- (intransitive) to think, to think over, to reflect upon, to reflect on, to consider, to ponder [with su] [auxiliary avere]
- Synonyms: considerare, pensare, ponderare, valutare
Usage notes
- The definitions "to reflect" and "to mirror outwardly" have the past participle riflesso while the definition "to consider" has the past participle riflettuto.
Conjugation
Conjugation of riflèttere (root-stressed -ere; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Less common.
2"to reflect, to mirror outwardly".
3"to consider".
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- riflettere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana