intravedere
Italian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French entrevoir, from Vulgar Latin *intervidēre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in.tra.veˈde.re/
- Rhymes: -ere
- Hyphenation: in‧tra‧ve‧dé‧re
Verb
intravedére (first-person singular present intravédo, first-person singular past historic intravìdi, past participle intravìsto or (less popular) intravedùto, first-person singular future intravedrò, auxiliary avére) (transitive)
- to make out; to catch a glimpse of
- Synonym: scorgere
- 2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:
- Allora, cominci a intravedere che tipo di mondo stiamo creando?
- Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating?
- (literally, “So, are you beginning to make out what type of world we are creating?”)
- to foresee; to have an inkling
- Synonyms: presagire, prevedere, intuire, indovinare
Conjugation
1Less popular.
Further reading
- intravedere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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