sospirare
Italian
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editVerb
editsospiràre (first-person singular present sospìro, first-person singular past historic sospirài, past participle sospiràto, auxiliary avére)
- (intransitive) to sigh
- Synonym: gemere
- (intransitive) to pine [with per ‘for’]
- (intransitive or transitive) to yearn, to long [with a or direct object ‘for something’]
- Synonyms: anelare (a), desiderare, tendere (a)
- sospirare la pace ― to yearn for peace
- (intransitive, literary) to breeze, to blow gently
- (transitive, by extension) to anxiously await
- (transitive, archaic, literary) to mourn
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of sospiràre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
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editFurther reading
edit- sospirare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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