Italian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin vidēre, from Proto-Italic *widēō, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *weyd-.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /veˈde.re/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ere
  • Hyphenation: ve‧dé‧re

Verb edit

vedére (first-person singular present védo, first-person singular past historic vìdi, past participle vìsto or (less popular) vedùto, first-person singular future vedrò, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to see
  2. to look at
  3. to find out
  4. to meet
  5. to visit
  6. to grasp (an idea)

Conjugation edit

Including lesser-used forms:

Derived terms edit

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Middle High German edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old High German fedara.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɛdərə/, /ˈfɛdərə/

Noun edit

vëdere f (plural vedere or vederen or vedern)

  1. feather

Neapolitan edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin vidēre.

Pronunciation edit

  • (Naples) IPA(key): [vəˈɾe]
  • (Gargano) IPA(key): [vəˈðɛ]
  • (Matera) IPA(key): [vəˈde]

Verb edit

vedere

  1. see

References edit

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1250: “avreste dovuto vedere” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “vedere”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

From the verb vedea +‎ -re.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /veˈde.re/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ere
  • Hyphenation: ve‧de‧re

Noun edit

vedere f (plural vederi)

  1. sight (the act of seeing)
    la prima vedereon first sight
    la vederein the open, in plain sight
    a pierde pe cineva din vedereto lose sight of someone
  2. sight (ability to see)
    Synonym: văz
  3. view (scenery, vista)
    Synonym: priveliște
  4. illustrated postcard
  5. (now uncommon) Synonym of viziune (vision, principle, concept)

Derived terms edit

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