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scemare
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Italian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *exsēmāre, from Latin sēmis (“a half”). Compare Sicilian scimuniri and scimunitu.
Pronunciation
Verb
scemàre (first-person singular present scémo, first-person singular past historic scemài, past participle scemàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)
- (transitive) to decrease, to reduce, to diminish
- (transitive, regional) to draw off a bit of wine from (a barrel, flask, etc.)
- (intransitive) to decrease, to diminish, to wane, to subside [with di ‘in’] [auxiliary essere]
- Synonyms: diminuire, ridurre; see also Thesaurus:indebolire
- scemare di peso ― to diminish in weight
- 2013, F. Scott Fitzgerald, translated by Ferruccio Russo, Il Grande Gatsby [The Great Gatsby], Edizioni Scientifiche e Artistiche, page 89:
- La faccenda assunse velocemente le dimensioni di uno scandalo, poi scemò.
- The thing approached the proportions of a scandal, then died away.
- (literally, “The matter quickly assumed the dimensions of a scandal, then diminished.”)
Conjugation
1Transitive.
2Intransitive.
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