Italian edit

Etymology edit

From melodia (melody) +‎ -are (1st conjugation verbal suffix).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /me.loˈdja.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: me‧lo‧dià‧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).

melodiàre (no first-person singular present, first-person singular past historic melodiài, no past participle, no first-person singular subjunctive, no second-person singular imperative)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, literary, rare) to sing or play (music), following a melody

Usage notes edit

  • This compound verb has an alternative form (melodizzare) that is used even more in the entire verbal paradigm. Both variants are not used in rhizotonic form based on the first element (the Greek root melos), but the stress falls on the second stem (ᾠδή (ōidḗ), from the verb ἀείδειν (aeídein, to sing)) which was absorbed by the Latin verb audīre. Hence the same by the Italian verb udire.
  • Example: "ho melodzzàto" is more standardized and equivalent to "io melodiài", because the Italian language uses frequently the passato prossimo and very rarely the "past historic" (passato remoto).

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Further reading edit

  • melodiare in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication