mortificare
See also: mortificaré
Italian
editPronunciation
editVerb
editmortificàre (first-person singular present mortìfico, first-person singular past historic mortificài, past participle mortificàto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to mortify
- to dismay; to embarrass or confuse someone with a reproach; to make someone feel sorry
- Synonym: umiliare
- Near-synonyms: imbarazzare, confondere
- to belittle, degrade, vilify, undervalue
- Synonyms: svilire, sminuire, sottovalutare, svalutare
- Antonym: sopravvalutare
- (dated) to bring an organism into a death-like state
- Antonyms: rivitalizzare, vivificare
- (religion) to repress stimuli and desires with corporal and spiritual penance
- 1980, Umberto Eco, “Primo giorno - Sesta”, in Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose] (I grandi tascabili), Milan: Bompiani, published 1984, page 64:
- [S]ai con quale […] feroce sete di penitenza ho tentato di mortificare in me i palpiti della carne, per farmi una sola trasparenza all'amore di Gesù Crocifisso...
- You know how ferocious was the thirst for penitence through which I tried to suppress my carnal palpitations, to have a sole clearness of Jesus Crucified's love...
- to dismay; to embarrass or confuse someone with a reproach; to make someone feel sorry
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of mortificàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- mortificare in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- mortificare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- mortificare in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
Latin
editVerb
editmortificāre
- inflection of mortificō:
Romanian
editEtymology
editNoun
editmortificare f (plural mortificări)
Declension
editDeclension of mortificare
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (o) mortificare | mortificarea | (niște) mortificări | mortificările |
genitive/dative | (unei) mortificări | mortificării | (unor) mortificări | mortificărilor |
vocative | mortificare, mortificareo | mortificărilor |
Spanish
editVerb
editmortificare
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