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natare

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Italian

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin natāre (swim, float). Doublet of nuotare.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /naˈta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: na‧tà‧re

Verb

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natàre (first-person singular present nàto, first-person singular past historic natài, past participle natàto, auxiliary avére) (archaic or poetic)

  1. (intransitive) to swim [auxiliary avere]
    Synonym: nuotare
    • 1835, Giacomo Leopardi with Alessandro Donati, “Ultimo canto di Saffo [Sappho's Last Song]”, in Canti[1], Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, page 40, lines 14–15:
      Noi per le balze e le profonde valli ¶ natar giova tra’ nembi
      In cliffs and deep valleys we take joy in swimming among the clouds

Conjugation

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References

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  • natare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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Latin

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Verb

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natāre

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

Neapolitan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin natāre.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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natare

  1. to swim

References

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  • Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “natare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano
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