sospirare
Italian
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /so.spiˈra.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: so‧spi‧rà‧re
Verb
    
sospiràre (first-person singular present sospìro, first-person singular past historic sospirài, past participle sospiràto, auxiliary avére)
- (intransitive) to sigh
- Synonym: gemere
 
- (intransitive) to pine [+ per (object) = for]
- (transitive with a or with no preposition) to yearn for, to long for
- Synonyms: anelare (a), desiderare, tendere (a)
 
- (intransitive, literary) to breeze, to blow gently
- (transitive, by extension) to anxiously await
- (transitive, archaic, literary) to mourn
Conjugation
    
    Conjugation of sospiràre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
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Further reading
    
- sospirare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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