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单词 tempestare
释义

tempestare

Italian

Etymology

From tempesta (storm) + -are (1st-conjugation verbal suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tem.peˈsta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: tem‧pe‧stà‧re

Verb

tempestàre (first-person singular present tempèsto, first-person singular past historic tempestài, past participle tempestàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (impersonal) to storm [auxiliary avere]
  2. (intransitive, archaic) to be stormy or agitated (especially of a sea or lake) [auxiliary avere]
  3. (figurative, intransitive) to storm, to rage [auxiliary avere]
    Synonym: infuriare
    • 1478, Luigi Pulci, “Canto decimosesto”, in Morgante, Felice Le Monnier, published 1855, page 325:
      E mentre che ’l caval furia e tempesta,
      Volselo in aria con tanta destrezza,
      Che non lo volse mai sì destro Ettorre
      And, as the horse rages and storms, she turned it upwards with such dexterity, that Hector had never done so skillfully
    • 1904, Luigi Pirandello, “16. Il ritratto di Minerva”, in Il fu Mattia Pascal [The Late Mattia Pascal], published 1919, page 272:
      Ritornai sul ponte, cheto, chinato. Mi tremavano le gambe, e il cuore mi tempestava in petto.
      I returned on the dock, quiet, bowing. My legs were shaking, and my heart was pounding in my chest.
  4. (intransitive) to deal forceful blows
    • 1825, Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade [Iliad], Milan: Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, published 1840, Book 2, lines 344–347, page 41:
      [] Si contorce
      E lágrima dirotto il manigoldo
      Dell'aureo scettro al tempestar, che tutta
      Gli fa la schiena rubiconda []
      The lowlife twitches and cries uncontrollably at the hitting of the golden scepter, which makes his whole back reddened
  5. (figurative, transitive) to forcefully hit
    Synonym: battere
    • 1840, Alessandro Manzoni, “Capitolo XXXII”, in I promessi sposi, Tip. Guglielmini e Redaelli, page 607:
      gl’infelici eran tempestati di pietre, o, presi, venivan menati, a furia di popolo, in prigione
      The unfortunate ones were bombarded with stones, or, having been taken, were brought to prison by popular rage
  6. (obsolete, transitive) to furiously mess up
    Synonym: rovinare
  7. (transitive) to batter
  8. (hyperbolic, transitive) to bombard (e.g., with questions)
    Synonym: bombardare
  9. (transitive) to stud with gems

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • tempestato
  • tempestio
  • tempesta
  • tempestà
  • tempestivo

Further reading

  • tempestare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

  • stamperete, stemperate, temperaste, tempesterà
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