acconsentire

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Italian

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Etymology

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From a- +‎ consentire.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ak.kon.senˈti.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: ac‧con‧sen‧tì‧re

Verb

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acconsentìre (first-person singular present acconsènto, first-person singular past historic acconsentìi, past participle acconsentìto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (intransitive) to agree [auxiliary avere]
  2. (intransitive) to consent [auxiliary avere]
  3. (transitive) to concede, to grant
  4. (transitive, nautical) to thread (a cable) excessively tight to prevent it from snapping

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • acconsentire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana