Italian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Late Latin dēmentāre, derived from Latin mēns (mind, intellect).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /de.menˈta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: de‧men‧tà‧re

Verb edit

  This Italian verb needs to be reviewed and cleaned up.
The definition(s) may be wrong or misleading, and important senses may be missing. The specified auxiliary may also be wrong. The remainder of the conjugation is probably correct for -are verbs but may be wrong in some particulars for -ire verbs (especially the present participle).

dementàre (first-person singular present demènto, first-person singular past historic dementài, past participle dementàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, literary) to drive crazy or drive mad

Conjugation edit

Related terms edit

Further reading edit

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

Anagrams edit

Latin edit

Verb edit

dēmentāre

  1. inflection of dēmentō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

Spanish edit

Verb edit

dementare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of dementar

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Adjective edit

dementare

  1. comparative degree of dement