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vantare

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Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin or Late Latin vānitāre, from Latin vānus or vānitās. Compare French vanter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vanˈta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: van‧tà‧re

Verb

vantàre (first-person singular present vànto, first-person singular past historic vantài, past participle vantàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to praise
  2. to claim, lay claim to
  3. to boast (to possess something worthy of boasting about)
    questa città vanta venti pontithis city boasts twenty bridges

Conjugation

Anagrams

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