allenarsi

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /al.leˈnar.si/
  • Rhymes: -arsi
  • Hyphenation: al‧le‧nàr‧si

Etymology 1

From allenare (to train) +‎ -si (enclitic reflexive pronoun).

Verb

allenàrsi (first-person singular present mi alléno or mi allèno[1], first-person singular past historic mi allenài, past participle allenàtosi)

  1. reflexive of allenare
  2. to train (oneself)
  3. to do exercises
Conjugation

Etymology 2

From allenare (to diminish, lessen) +‎ -si (enclitic reflexive pronoun).

Verb

allenàrsi (first-person singular present mi allèno[1], first-person singular past historic mi allenài, past participle allenàtosi) (literary)

  1. (intransitive) to diminish, lessen, weaken
    • 1850, Giosuè Carducci, Juvenilia[1], Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, page 9:
      Poi, se la fulgida ira s’alléni, ¶ Vola a i dolcissimi colli tirreni
      Then, if the shining rage weakens, it flies to the sweet Tyrrhenian hills
Conjugation

References

  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 alleno in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)