assediare

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Italian

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Etymology

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Perhaps a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin assediāre, reshaping of Classical Latin obsidēre.[1] Alternatively, derived from assedio (siege) +‎ -are (1st-conjugation verbal suffix).[2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /as.seˈdja.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: as‧se‧dià‧re

Verb

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assediàre (first-person singular present assèdio, first-person singular past historic assediài, past participle assediàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. (military) to besiege, to lay siege to
    Synonym: cingere d'assedio
    • 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Come Iulio Ascanio figliuolo d’Enea fu re apresso lui, e li re e signori che discesono di sua progenia.” (chapter 24), Libro primo, in Nuova Cronica[1], published 1991:
      [] discesero molti grandi e possenti re e signori; intra gli altri il valente Brenno e Bellino fratelli, i quali per loro potenzia sconfissero gli Romani e assediaro Roma, e presolla infino a Campidoglio
      [] many great and powerful lords came, among which the valiant brothers Brennus and Bellinus, who — through their power — defeated the Romans, and laid siege to Rome, and conquered it up to the Capitolium
  2. (figurative) to weigh on, to trouble
  3. (figurative) to beset, to surround
    Synonym: circondare
  4. (figurative) to nag, to pester
    Synonym: assillare

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ assediare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  2. ^ “assediare”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 1 a–balb, UTET, 1966, page 752

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