vacillare

See also: vacil·laré

Italian

Etymology

From Latin vacillāre.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /va.t͡ʃilˈla.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: va‧cil‧là‧re

Verb

vacillàre (first-person singular present vacìllo, first-person singular past historic vacillài, past participle vacillàto, auxiliary avére) (intransitive)

  1. to sway, to totter, to stagger along
  2. to flicker
  3. to waver, to vacillate
  4. (figurative) to fade, to diminish (e.g. of one's vision, of hopes)
  5. (figurative) to falter (e.g. of an institution)

Conjugation
    Conjugation of vacillàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive vacillàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund vacillàndo
present participle vacillànte past participle vacillàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present vacìllo vacìlli vacìlla vacilliàmo vacillàte vacìllano
imperfect vacillàvo vacillàvi vacillàva vacillavàmo vacillavàte vacillàvano
past historic vacillài vacillàsti vacillò vacillàmmo vacillàste vacillàrono
future vacillerò vacillerài vacillerà vacillerémo vacilleréte vacillerànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present vacillerèi vacillerésti vacillerèbbe, vacillerébbe vacillerémmo vacilleréste vacillerèbbero, vacillerébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present vacìlli vacìlli vacìlli vacilliàmo vacilliàte vacìllino
imperfect vacillàssi vacillàssi vacillàsse vacillàssimo vacillàste vacillàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
vacìlla vacìlli vacilliàmo vacillàte vacìllino
negative imperative non vacillàre non vacìlli non vacilliàmo non vacillàte non vacìllino

Derived terms

Further reading
  • vacillare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

vacillāre

  1. inflection of vacillō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative
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