tastare

See also: tastaré

Italian

Etymology

Possibly from Vulgar Latin *tastāre, from taxitāre, frequentative of Late Latin taxāre, from Classical Latin tangō (to touch). Compare Catalan, Occitan, and Venetian tastar; Old French taster; Friulian tastâ; Sicilian tastari.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taˈsta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ta‧stà‧re

Verb

tastàre (first-person singular present tàsto, first-person singular past historic tastài, past participle tastàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to feel
  2. (transitive) to grope, to cop a feel
  3. (transitive) to test, to probe by feel
  4. (transitive, Tuscan) to taste

Conjugation

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