Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin spōnsāre.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /spoˈza.re/
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  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: spo‧sà‧re

Verb

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sposàre (first-person singular present spòso, first-person singular past historic sposài, past participle sposàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to cause (someone) to get married, to give a spouse to, to marry (someone to someone else)
  2. (transitive, figurative) to embrace, to espouse, to join
    sposare una causato embrace a cause

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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

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