Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin incutere.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /inˈku.te.re/
  • Rhymes: -utere
  • Hyphenation: in‧cù‧te‧re

Verb

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incùtere (first-person singular present incùto, first-person singular past historic incùssi, past participle incùsso, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to arouse (a negative emotion)
    Synonyms: infondere, provocare; see also Thesaurus:suscitare
    • 2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:
      Anche il quadrante incuteva meno terrore.
      The dial, also, had grown to be less of a terror.
      (literally, “Also the dial aroused less terror.”)

Conjugation

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Latin

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Verb

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incutere

  1. inflection of incutiō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative