Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /stem.peˈrar.si/
  • Rhymes: -arsi
  • Hyphenation: stem‧pe‧ràr‧si

Verb edit

stemperàrsi (first-person singular present mi stémpero or (traditional) mi stèmpero[1], first-person singular past historic mi stemperài, past participle stemperàto)

  1. reflexive of stemperare
  2. to be dissolved or diluted
  3. to be lessened, attenuated, or weakened
  4. (literary) to get emotional; to melt
    Synonyms: sciogliersi, struggersi; see also Thesaurus:appassionare
    • 13361374, Francesco Petrarca, “LXXIII — Poi che per mio destino”, in Il Canzoniere, lines 7–8; republished as Daniele Ponchiroli, editor, Turin: publ. Giulio Einaudi, 1964:
      [] ma non in guisa che lo cor si stempre ¶ di soverchia dolcezza, com’io temo [].
      [] but not in this way that the heart melts of excessive sweetness, as I fear.
  5. (rare) to be blunted

Conjugation edit

References edit

  1. ^ stempero in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams edit