dementare

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin dēmentāre, derived from Latin mēns (mind, intellect).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /de.menˈta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: de‧men‧tà‧re

Verb

dementàre (first-person singular present demènto, first-person singular past historic dementài, past participle dementàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, literary) to drive crazy or drive mad

Conjugation

Further reading

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

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

dēmentāre

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

Spanish

Verb

dementare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of dementar

Swedish

Adjective

dementare

  1. comparative degree of dement
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