destarsi
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deˈstar.si/
- Rhymes: -arsi
- Hyphenation: de‧stàr‧si
Verb
destàrsi (first-person singular present mi désto or mi dèsto[1], first-person singular past historic mi destài, past participle destàto)
- reflexive of destare
- (intransitive) to wake up
- Synonyms: ridestarsi, svegliarsi, risvegliarsi, alzarsi
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto VI, lines 94–96:
- E 'l duca disse a me: «Più non si desta ¶ di qua dal suon de l'angelica tromba, ¶ quando verrà la nimica podesta [...]»
- And the Guide said to me: "He wakes no more ¶ this side the sound of the angelic trumpet; ¶ when shall approach the hostile Potentate"
- to get out of a rut; to come back to activity
Conjugation
References
- desto in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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