attentarsi

Italian

Etymology

attentare + -si

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /at.tenˈtar.si/, [ät̪t̪en̪ˈt̪är̺s̪i]
  • Stress: attentàrsi
  • Hyphenation: at‧ten‧tar‧si

Verb

attentarsi

  1. (intransitive) To venture, dare. Used with di or a + infinitive verb
    Synonyms: ardire, arrischiarsi, osare
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio [The Divine Comedy: Purgatory] (paperback), Bompiani, published 2001, Canto XXV, lines 10–15, page 378:
      E quale il cicognin che leva l’ala ¶ per voglia di volare, e non s’attenta ¶ d’abbandonar lo nido, e giù la cala; ¶ tal era io con voglia accesa e spenta ¶ di dimandar, venendo infino a l’atto ¶ che fa colui ch’a dicer s’argomenta.
      And as the little stork that lifts its wing with a desire to fly, and does not venture to leave the nest, and lets it downward droop, even such was I, with the desire of asking kindled and quenched, unto the motion coming he makes who doth address himself to speak.

Conjugation

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