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belare
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See also: belaré
Italian
Etymology
Inherited from Late Latin bēlāre, from Classical Latin bālāre. Compare also Lombardic bellan (“to bark, bay, resound, echo”), German bellen (“to bark”).
Pronunciation
Verb
belàre (first-person singular present bèlo, first-person singular past historic belài, past participle belàto, auxiliary avére)
- (intransitive) to bleat (both senses) [auxiliary avere]
- (intransitive, figurative, by extension) to sing in a whiny or mushy tone [auxiliary avere]
- (transitive) to recite annoyingly or affectedly slowly
- belare la poesia ― to annoyingly recite the poem
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