dire

Senso

Verb

1. to say, to tell (to express through speech)
2. to tell (to order, to advise)
3. to say, to tell (to set out in writing)
4. to say (often used in the sense of responding to an objection)
5. to say, to tell of (to celebrate, to sing, to narrate)
6. to say, to tell (to deliver, to recite)
7. to say, (figuratively) to seem like, to look like (to judge, to believe, to think)
8. to mean, to say, to state (to denote, to signify, to indicate, to mark)
9. to say, to tell (used when speaking of actions, of gestures, of looks, etc., that demonstrate someone's thinking)
10. (informal) to call out (to denounce)
11. to say (to express what one thinks, what one feels, what one sees)
12. to say (to signify, to be used for a word, a phrase, a sentence)
13. to say (to claim, to assure that one has a certain quality)
14. to say to oneself, to think to oneself, to tell oneself, to think (to make this or that reflection, to have this or that thought, to make this or that reasoning within oneself)
15. (informal) to be of interest to, to interest [with à ‘someone’], to be up for, to be interested, to like to, to feel like (to be okay with, to be tempted by)
16. (informal) to sound familiar

Noun

1. saying (that which is said)
2. belief, opinion

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/diʁ/

Etimologia

Inherited from Middle French dire, from Old French dire, from Latin dīcō, from Proto-Italic *deikō, from Proto-Indo-European *déyḱti (“to show, point out”).

Frasi

Ni avec lui , ni avec personne , à vrai dire .

Né con lui, né con nessuno, per dire la verità.

Elle était Italienne , c’est tout dire .

Era italiana, tutto qui.

Je balbutiais , je ne savais que dire .

Ho balbettato, non sapevo cosa dire.

Ie vais tout dire sans ambaiges.

Dirà tutto senza ambra.