guatare

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Lombardic *wahtan, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wahtwō (“to watch, vigil”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡwaˈta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: gua‧tà‧re

Verb

guatàre (first-person singular present guàto, first-person singular past historic guatài, past participle guatàto, auxiliary avére) (obsolete, literary)

  1. (transitive) to look askance at
  2. (transitive) to stare at (in fear or curiosity)
    • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 22–24; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      E come quei che con lena affannata, ¶ uscito fuor del pelago a la riva, ¶ si volge a l’acqua perigliosa e guata, […]
      And even as he, who, with distressful breath, ⁠forth issued from the sea upon the shore, turns to the water perilous and gazes; […]
  3. (transitive) to consider, contemplate, look at

Conjugation
    Conjugation of guatàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive guatàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund guatàndo
present participle guatànte past participle guatàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present guàto guàti guàta guatiàmo guatàte guàtano
imperfect guatàvo guatàvi guatàva guatavàmo guatavàte guatàvano
past historic guatài guatàsti guatò guatàmmo guatàste guatàrono
future guaterò guaterài guaterà guaterémo guateréte guaterànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present guaterèi guaterésti guaterèbbe, guaterébbe guaterémmo guateréste guaterèbbero, guaterébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present guàti guàti guàti guatiàmo guatiàte guàtino
imperfect guatàssi guatàssi guatàsse guatàssimo guatàste guatàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
guàta guàti guatiàmo guatàte guàtino
negative imperative non guatàre non guàti non guatiàmo non guatàte non guàtino

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