satisfare
See also: satisfaré
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin satisfacere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa.tiˈsfa.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: sa‧ti‧sfà‧re
Verb
satisfàre (first-person singular present satisfàccio, first-person singular past historic satisféci, past participle satisfàtto, first-person singular imperfect satisfacévo, second-person singular imperative satisfài or satisfà', auxiliary avére)
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) Alternative form of soddisfare
- early 14th century, Dante, “Canto XVI”, in Inferno, lines 79–81:
- «Se l'altre volte sì poco ti costa», ¶ rispuoser tutti, «il satisfare altrui, ¶ felice te se sì parli a tua posta! […]»
- «If other times so little it doth cost thee», ¶ replied they all, «to satisfy another, ¶ happy art thou, thus speaking at thy will!»
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Conjugation
Conjugation of satisfàre (-ere; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1With syntactic gemination after the verb.
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