stimolare

Italian

Etymology

From Latin stimulāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sti.moˈla.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: sti‧mo‧là‧re
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Verb

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  1. to stimulate
  2. (archaic) to bite (of insects)
    • 1314, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Inferno, lines 63–66; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata, 2nd revised edition, Florence: Casa Editrice Le Lettere, 1994:
      Questi sciaurati, che mai non fur vivi ¶ erano ignudi e stimolati molto ¶ da mosconi e da vespe ch'eran ivi.
      These wretches, who never had been alive were naked and bitten a great deal by mosquitoes and by wasps which were in that place.

Conjugation

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