compungere
Italian
Alternative forms
- compugnere (archaic)
Etymology
From Latin compungere. By surface analysis, con- + pungere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /komˈpun.d͡ʒe.re/
- Rhymes: -undʒere
- Hyphenation: com‧pùn‧ge‧re
Verb
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- (literary, transitive) to disturb, to trouble, to afflict
- 1314, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno, lines 13–15; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata, 2nd revised edition, Florence: Casa Editrice Le Lettere, 1994:
- to cause to feel remorse, to cause to regret
Conjugation
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Derived terms
Further reading
- compùngere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Verb
compungere
- inflection of compungō:
- present active infinitive
- second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative
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