saettare
Meaning
- (literary, transitive) to shoot or strike with arrows or with thunderbolts
- (intransitive, literary) to shoot arrows
- (broadly, literary, transitive) to shoot, to throw
- (intransitive, literary, usually) to shoot (with a strong and flattened trajectory)
- (figuratively, literary, transitive) to light up (of the sun)
- (figuratively, intransitive, literary) to radiate light (of the sun)
- (figuratively, literary, transitive) to cast (a glance, a glare)
- (intransitive, literary) to dart, to move quickly
- (impersonal, literary, rare) to flash with lightning
Hyphenated as
sa‧et‧tà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/sa.etˈta.re/
Etymology
From saetta + -are, or from Latin sagittāre.
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