Italian

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Etymology

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Unknown

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pajˈdi.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: pai‧dì‧re

Verb

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paidìre (first-person singular present paidìsco, first-person singular past historic paidìi, past participle paidìto, auxiliary avére)

  1. Alternative form of padire (to digest)
    • 13th century, Jacopone da Todi, [untitled work]; republished as “Audite una 'ntenzone, ch'è 'nfra l'anema e 'l corpo [Listen to a conflict between the soul and the body]”, in Franco Mancini, editor, Laude [Praises]‎[1], Rome, Bari: Laterza, 1980:
      "E como surgo, lèvome, che non aio dormito? / Degestione guastase, non aio ancor paidito
      "How do I rise, arise, if I have not slept? The digestion is ruined, I still have not digested"
    • 1591, Filippo Scacco, “Della infermità pletoria, cioè rempimento de cibo non paidito [About the illness of overabundance, that is, filling with undigested food]” (chapter 46), in Opera di mescalzia [Work about farriery]‎[2], Rome: Paolo Blado, page 149:
      QVando la beſtia ſuda, & magna orzo, e non ſe fatiga, ouero quando magna troppo naſce la infermità pletoria, cioè mal paidire
      [Quando la bestia suda, e magna orzo, e non se fatiga, overo quando magna troppo nasce la infermità pletoria, cioè mal paidire]
      When the beast sweats, and eats barley and does not exert itself—that is, when it eats too much—the overabundance illness is born, that is, bad digesting.

Conjugation

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