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inalbare
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Italian
Alternative forms
- innalbare (archaic, inherited?)
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin inalbāre.
Pronunciation
Verb
inalbàre (first-person singular present inàlbo, first-person singular past historic inalbài, past participle inalbàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere) (literary)
- (transitive) to make white, to whiten
- Synonym: imbiancare
- 1825, Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade [Iliad], Milan: Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, published 1840, Libro X, page 206:
- Quale il marito di Giunon lampeggia, ¶ quando prepara una gran piova o grandine, ¶ o folta neve ad inalbare i campi ¶ o fracasso di guerra voratrice
- Like Juno's husband thunders when preparing great rain or hail or thick snow to whiten the fields or din of devastating war
- (rare, intransitive) to become white, to whiten [auxiliary essere]
- Synonyms: imbiancarsi, inalbarsi
- (rare, archaic, intransitive) to become turbid and whitish (of a liquid) [auxiliary essere]
Conjugation
1Transitive.
2Intransitive.
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- inalbare in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907), “inalbare”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
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Latin
Verb
inalbāre
- inflection of inalbō:
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