Italian

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Etymology

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Likely related to stentare (to have difficulty).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bi.stenˈta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: bi‧sten‧tà‧re

Verb

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bistentàre (first-person singular present bistènto or bisténto[1], first-person singular past historic bistentài, past participle bistentàto, auxiliary avére) (obsolete, intransitive)

  1. to suffer greatly
  2. to wait painfully, to linger uneasily

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ stento in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

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  • bistentare in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication