disnodare
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From dis- + nodo (“knot”) + -are (1st conjugation verbal suffix).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
disnodàre (first-person singular present disnòdo, first-person singular past historic disnodài, past participle disnodàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive, rare)
- to untie, to unknot
- Synonym: snodare
- (figurative, archaic) to clarify, to disclose, to unravel
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio [The Divine Comedy: Purgatory] (paperback), Bompiani, published 2001, Canto XIV, page 207, lines 55–57:
- Né lascerò di dir perch' altri m'oda; ¶ e buon sarà costui, s'ancor m'ammenta ¶ di ciò che vero spirto mi disnoda.
- Nor will I cease because another hears me; and well 'twill be for him, if still he mind him of what a truthful spirit to me unravels.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of disnodàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- disnodare in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication