See also: mortificaré

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mor.ti.fiˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: mor‧ti‧fi‧cà‧re

Verb

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mortificàre (first-person singular present mortìfico, first-person singular past historic mortificài, past participle mortificàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to mortify
    1. to dismay; to embarrass or confuse someone with a reproach; to make someone feel sorry
      Synonym: umiliare
      Near-synonyms: imbarazzare, confondere
    2. to belittle, degrade, vilify, undervalue
      Synonyms: svilire, sminuire, sottovalutare, svalutare
      Antonym: sopravvalutare
    3. (dated) to bring an organism into a death-like state
      Antonyms: rivitalizzare, vivificare
      1. (medicine) to necrotize; to deeply alter organ fabrics
        Near-synonym: necrotizzare
      2. (rare, cooking) to become high (of meat)
        Synonym: frollare
    4. (religion) to repress stimuli and desires with corporal and spiritual penance
      • 1980, Umberto Eco, “Primo giorno - Sesta”, in Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose] (I grandi tascabili), Milan: Bompiani, published 1984, page 64:
        [S]ai con quale [] feroce sete di penitenza ho tentato di mortificare in me i palpiti della carne, per farmi una sola trasparenza all'amore di Gesù Crocifisso...
        You know how ferocious was the thirst for penitence through which I tried to suppress my carnal palpitations, to have a sole clearness of Jesus Crucified's love...

Conjugation

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Further reading

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  • mortificare in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • mortificare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • mortificare in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)

Latin

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Verb

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mortificāre

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

Romanian

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Etymology

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From mortifica +‎ -re.

Noun

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mortificare f (plural mortificări)

  1. mortification

Declension

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Spanish

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Verb

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mortificare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of mortificar