refutare

See also: refutaré

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin refūtāre (to oppose”, “to refute). Doublet of rifiutare.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /re.fuˈta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: re‧fu‧tà‧re

Verb

refutàre (first-person singular present rèfuto[1], first-person singular past historic refutài, past participle refutàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (obsolete, literary, transitive) Alternative form of rifiutare (to refuse; to deny; to disown):
    Synonym: rifiutare
    Antonym: accettare
    • 1374, Francesco Petrarca, “O invidia, nemica di virtute [O Envy, Enemy of Virtue]”, in Il Canzoniere, Florence: Andrea Bettini, published 1858, page 138, lines 6–8:
      Troppo felice amante mi mostrasti ¶ a quella che miei preghi umili e casti ¶ gradì alcun tempo, or par ch'odj e refute.
      You depicted me as too happy a lover ¶ to her who my humble and chaste requests ¶ once liked, and now seems to hate and reject.
  2. (rare) to refute
    Synonym: confutare
    Antonym: confermare
    La sua erronea tesi fu refutata.His wrong argument was refuted.

Conjugation

References

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

Latin

Verb

refūtāre

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

Romanian

Etymology

From refuta + -re.

Noun

refutare f (plural refutări)

  1. refutation

Declension

Spanish

Verb

refutare

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