Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /spe.kuˈla.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: spe‧cu‧là‧re

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin speculāris.

Adjective

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speculare (plural speculari)

  1. (relational) mirror; specular
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Latin speculārī.

Alternative forms

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Verb

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speculàre (first-person singular present spèculo, first-person singular past historic speculài, past participle speculàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (intransitive) to speculate [with su ‘about’] [auxiliary avere]
  2. (intransitive, finance) to speculate [with su ‘on’] [auxiliary avere]
  3. (intransitive, figurative) to profit from, to take advantage of, to exploit [with su] [auxiliary avere]
  4. (transitive) to inquire philosophically into, to investigate philosophically, to speculate about (a subject)
Conjugation
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Anagrams

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Latin

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Verb

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speculāre

  1. second-person singular present active imperative/indicative of speculor

Romanian

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Etymology

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From specula +‎ -re.

Noun

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speculare f (plural speculări)

  1. (business, finance) speculation

Declension

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