spegnere
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin expingere, from ex- (“out”) + pingo (“paint”), with a semantic change from “remove colour” to “fade, dim”, probably influenced by extingere.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈspeɲ.ɲe.re/[3][1]
- IPA(key): (traditional) /ˈspɛɲ.ɲe.re/[3][1]
- Rhymes: -ɛɲɲere
- Hyphenation: spè‧gne‧re
Verb
[edit]spégnere or (traditional) spègnere (first-person singular present spéngo or (traditional) spèngo, first-person singular past historic spénsi or (traditional) spènsi, past participle spénto or (traditional) spènto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)
- to turn off (a light, motor, television, etc.)
- Antonym: accendere
- Spegni la luce!
- Turn off the light!
- to extinguish, to put out (a fire, candle, etc.)
- I vigili del fuoco hanno spento le fiamme.
- The firefighters extinguished the flames.
- (figurative) to extinguish (a controversy, debt, one's anger, etc.)
- to quench (thirst)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of spégnere or spègnere (root-stressed -ere; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Traditional.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 spegnere in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2025
- ^ “spegnere”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 spegnere in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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