insalarsi

Italian

Etymology

From insalare (to salt) + -si (oneself, enclitic reflexive pronoun).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in.saˈlar.si/
  • Rhymes: -arsi
  • Hyphenation: in‧sa‧làr‧si

Verb

insalàrsi (first-person singular present mi insàlo, first-person singular past historic mi insalài, past participle insalàto)

  1. reflexive of insalare
  2. (intransitive, poetic) to become salt or saline (of a river)
    • early 14th century, Dante, “Canto II”, in Purgatorio, lines 100–102:
      Ond’ io, ch’era ora a la marina vòlto
      dove l’acqua di Tevero s’insala,
      benignamente fu’ da lui ricolto.
      Whence I, who now had turned unto that shore where salt the waters of the Tiber grow, benignantly by him have been received.

Conjugation

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