disfidare
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin disfīdāre, derived from Latin fīdō (“to trust, to rely upon”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
disfidàre (first-person singular present disfìdo, first-person singular past historic disfidài, past participle disfidàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive, literary) to challenge (to a duel or competition)
- Synonym: sfidare
- (intransitive, obsolete) to distrust (someone)
- Synonym: diffidare
- (transitive, obsolete) to deem (a sick person) hopeless
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of disfidàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)