saettare

Italian

Etymology

From saetta +‎ -are, or from Latin sagittāre.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sa.etˈta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: sa‧et‧tà‧re

Verb

saettàre (first-person singular present saétto, first-person singular past historic saettài, past participle saettàto, auxiliary (transitive, also intransitive in the general sense "to shoot, to cast, etc.") avére or (intransitive in the sense "to move quickly, to dart") èssere) (literary)

  1. (transitive) to shoot or strike with arrows or with thunderbolts
  2. (intransitive) to shoot arrows [auxiliary avere]
  3. (transitive, by extension) to shoot, to throw
  4. (usually intransitive, sports, soccer) to shoot (with a strong and flattened trajectory) [auxiliary avere]
  5. (transitive, figurative) to light up (of the sun)
  6. (intransitive, figurative) to radiate light (of the sun) [auxiliary avere]
  7. (transitive, figurative) to cast (a glance, a glare)
  8. (intransitive) to dart, to move quickly [auxiliary essere]
  9. (rare, impersonal) to flash with lightning [auxiliary avere or essere]

Conjugation

    Conjugation of saettàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive saettàre
auxiliary verb avére1, èssere2 gerund saettàndo
present participle saettànte past participle saettàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present saétto saétti saétta saettiàmo saettàte saéttano
imperfect saettàvo saettàvi saettàva saettavàmo saettavàte saettàvano
past historic saettài saettàsti saettò saettàmmo saettàste saettàrono
future saetterò saetterài saetterà saetterémo saetteréte saetterànno
conditional saetterèi saetterésti saetterèbbe, saetterébbe saetterémmo saetteréste saetterèbbero, saetterébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present saétti saétti saétti saettiàmo saettiàte saéttino
imperfect saettàssi saettàssi saettàsse saettàssimo saettàste saettàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
saétta saétti saettiàmo saettàte saéttino
negative imperative non saettàre non saétti non saettiàmo non saettàte non saéttino

1Transitive, also intransitive in the general sense "to shoot, to cast, etc.".
2Intransitive in the sense "to move quickly, to dart".

References

  1. ^ saettare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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