stentare
Italian
Etymology
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
- IPA(key): /stenˈta.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: sten‧tà‧re
Verb
stentàre (first-person singular present stènto or sténto[1], first-person singular past historic stentài, past participle stentàto, auxiliary avére)
- (intransitive) to have difficulty [+ a (object) = in (doing something)]
- (intransitive) to struggle (in life)
Conjugation
Conjugation of stentàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
References
- stento in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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