alenare

See also: alenaré

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin alēnāre, metathesized from Latin anhēlāre. Compare French halener. Doublet of anelare, a borrowing from Latin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.leˈna.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: a‧le‧nà‧re

Verb

alenàre (first-person singular present aléno, first-person singular past historic alenài, past participle alenàto, auxiliary avére) (literary, archaic)

  1. (intransitive) to gasp
  2. to long for

Conjugation

Further reading

  • alenare in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • alenare in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • alenàre in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • alenare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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