stemperarsi
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stem.peˈrar.si/
- Rhymes: -arsi
- Hyphenation: stem‧pe‧ràr‧si
Verb
stemperàrsi (first-person singular present mi stémpero or (traditional) mi stèmpero[1], first-person singular past historic mi stemperài, past participle stemperàto)
- reflexive of stemperare
- to be dissolved or diluted
- to be lessened, attenuated, or weakened
- (literary) to get emotional; to melt
- Synonyms: sciogliersi, struggersi; see also Thesaurus:appassionare
- 1336–1374, Francesco Petrarca, “LXXIII — Poi che per mio destino”, in Il Canzoniere, lines 7–8; republished as Daniele Ponchiroli, editor, Turin: publ. Giulio Einaudi, 1964:
- […] ma non in guisa che lo cor si stempre ¶ di soverchia dolcezza, com’io temo […].
- […] but not in this way that the heart melts of excessive sweetness, as I fear.
- (rare) to be blunted
Conjugation
1Traditional.
References
- stempero in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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