attenuare

Italian

Etymology

From Latin attenuāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /at.te.nuˈa.re/, /at.teˈnwa.re/[1]
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: at‧te‧nu‧à‧re, at‧te‧nuà‧re

Verb

attenuàre (first-person singular present attènuo, first-person singular past historic attenuài, past participle attenuàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to make fainter, to attenuate
  2. (figurative) to ease (pain, etc.), to mitigate, to relieve
  3. (archaic or literary) to slim down

Conjugation

References

  1. attenuo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

attenuāre

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