stimolare

Italian

Etymology

From Latin stimulāre.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

stimolàre (first-person singular present stìmolo, first-person singular past historic stimolài, past participle stimolàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to stimulate
  2. (archaic) to bite (of insects)
    • early 14th century, Dante, “Canto III”, in Inferno, lines 63–66:
      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.

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