Italian

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Etymology

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Either from Vulgar Latin *extentāre, from Latin tentāre, or from s- (from Latin Latin ex-) + tentare (from Latin temptāre), or from Vulgar Latin *abstentāre, from Latin abstentum, from abstineō.

Cognate with Friulian stentâ, Lombard stentà, Piedmontese stenté.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /stenˈta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: sten‧tà‧re

Verb

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stentàre (first-person singular present stènto or sténto[1], first-person singular past historic stentài, past participle stentàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (intransitive) to have difficulty [+ a (object) = in (doing something)]
  2. (intransitive) to struggle (in life)

Conjugation

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References

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

Anagrams

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