"covare" meaning in Italian

See covare in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /koˈva.re/
Rhymes: -are Etymology: From Latin cubō (“to lie down”), from Proto-Italic *kubāō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb-. Doublet of cubare. Etymology templates: {{root|it|ine-pro|*ḱewb-}}, {{inh|it|la|cubō|t=to lie down}} Latin cubō (“to lie down”), {{der|it|itc-pro|*kubāō}} Proto-Italic *kubāō, {{der|it|ine-pro|*ḱewb-}} Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb-, {{doublet|it|cubare}} Doublet of cubare Head templates: {{it-verb|a/ó}} covàre (first-person singular present cóvo, first-person singular past historic covài, past participle covàto, auxiliary avére) Inflection templates: {{it-conj|a/ó}} Forms: covàre [canonical], cóvo [first-person, present, singular], covài [first-person, historic, past, singular], covàto [participle, past], avére [auxiliary], no-table-tags [table-tags], covàre [infinitive], avére [auxiliary], covàndo [gerund], covànte [participle, present], covàto [participle, past], cóvo [first-person, indicative, present, singular], cóvi [indicative, present, second-person, singular], cóva [indicative, present, singular, third-person], coviàmo [first-person, indicative, plural, present], covàte [indicative, plural, present, second-person], cóvano [indicative, plural, present, third-person], covàvo [first-person, imperfect, indicative, singular], covàvi [imperfect, indicative, second-person, singular], covàva [imperfect, indicative, singular, third-person], covavàmo [first-person, imperfect, indicative, plural], covavàte [imperfect, indicative, plural, second-person], covàvano [imperfect, indicative, plural, third-person], covài [first-person, historic, indicative, past, singular], covàsti [historic, indicative, past, second-person, singular], covò [historic, indicative, past, singular, third-person], covàmmo [first-person, historic, indicative, past, plural], covàste [historic, indicative, past, plural, second-person], covàrono [historic, indicative, past, plural, third-person], coverò [first-person, future, indicative, singular], coverài [future, indicative, second-person, singular], coverà [future, indicative, singular, third-person], coverémo [first-person, future, indicative, plural], coveréte [future, indicative, plural, second-person], coverànno [future, indicative, plural, third-person], coverèi [conditional, first-person, singular], coverésti [conditional, second-person, singular], coverèbbe [conditional, singular, third-person], coverébbe [conditional, singular, third-person], coverémmo [conditional, first-person, plural], coveréste [conditional, plural, second-person], coverèbbero [conditional, plural, third-person], coverébbero [conditional, plural, third-person], cóvi [first-person, present, singular, subjunctive], cóvi [present, second-person, singular, subjunctive], cóvi [present, singular, subjunctive, third-person], coviàmo [first-person, plural, present, subjunctive], coviàte [plural, present, second-person, subjunctive], cóvino [plural, present, subjunctive, third-person], covàssi [first-person, imperfect, singular, subjunctive], covàssi [imperfect, second-person, singular, subjunctive], covàsse [imperfect, singular, subjunctive, third-person], covàssimo [first-person, imperfect, plural, subjunctive], covàste [imperfect, plural, second-person, subjunctive], covàssero [imperfect, plural, subjunctive, third-person], cóva [imperative, second-person, singular], cóvi [formal, imperative, second-person-semantically, singular, third-person], coviàmo [first-person, imperative, plural], covàte [imperative, plural, second-person], cóvino [formal, imperative, plural, second-person-semantically, third-person], covàre [imperative, negative, second-person, singular], cóvi [formal, imperative, negative, second-person-semantically, singular, third-person], coviàmo [first-person, imperative, negative, plural], covàte [imperative, negative, plural, second-person], cóvino [formal, imperative, negative, plural, second-person-semantically, third-person]
  1. (transitive) to brood, to incubate (an egg) (keep an egg warm) (of a bird) Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-covare-it-verb-o3k9FLEq Categories (other): Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary Disambiguation of Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary: 23 28 15 34
  2. (transitive, figurative, by extension) to brood, to protect, to foster Tags: broadly, figuratively, transitive
    Sense id: en-covare-it-verb-Usv7kzDQ Categories (other): Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary Disambiguation of Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary: 23 28 15 34
  3. (transitive) to cultivate, to nurture (an emotion, desire, etc.) Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-covare-it-verb-0rucqAyY Categories (other): Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary Disambiguation of Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary: 23 28 15 34
  4. (intransitive) to remain unexpressed; to be bottled up [auxiliary avere] Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-covare-it-verb-9YtNo4Yy Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header, Italian links with redundant wikilinks, Italian verbs ending in -are, Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 10 19 6 65 Disambiguation of Italian links with redundant wikilinks: 14 24 8 54 Disambiguation of Italian verbs ending in -are: 15 16 11 58 Disambiguation of Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary: 23 28 15 34 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 6 7 6 81 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 6 5 83
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: cova, covata, covaticcio, covatoio, covatore, covatrice, covo

Inflected forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "cova"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "covata"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "covaticcio"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "covatoio"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "covatore"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "covatrice"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "covo"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*ḱewb-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "cubō",
        "t": "to lie down"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin cubō (“to lie down”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*kubāō"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *kubāō",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*ḱewb-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb-",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "cubare"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of cubare",
      "name": "doublet"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin cubō (“to lie down”), from Proto-Italic *kubāō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb-. Doublet of cubare.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "covàre",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cóvo",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covài",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "historic",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covàto",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avére",
      "tags": [
        "auxiliary"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "it-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covàre",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "avére",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "auxiliary"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covàndo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "gerund"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covànte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covàto",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cóvo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cóvi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cóva",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coviàmo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covàte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "present",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cóvano",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "present",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covàvo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covàvi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covàva",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covavàmo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covavàte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covàvano",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covài",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "historic",
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covàsti",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "historic",
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covò",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "historic",
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covàmmo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "historic",
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covàste",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "historic",
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covàrono",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "historic",
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coverò",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coverài",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coverà",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coverémo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coveréte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coverànno",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coverèi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "first-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coverésti",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coverèbbe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coverébbe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coverémmo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "first-person",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coveréste",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coverèbbero",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coverébbero",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cóvi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cóvi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cóvi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coviàmo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "plural",
        "present",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coviàte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cóvino",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covàssi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covàssi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "second-person",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covàsse",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covàssimo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covàste",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "second-person",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covàssero",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cóva",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cóvi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "imperative",
        "second-person-semantically",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coviàmo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covàte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cóvino",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "second-person-semantically",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covàre",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "negative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cóvi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "imperative",
        "negative",
        "second-person-semantically",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coviàmo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperative",
        "negative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "covàte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "negative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cóvino",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "imperative",
        "negative",
        "plural",
        "second-person-semantically",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "a/ó"
      },
      "expansion": "covàre (first-person singular present cóvo, first-person singular past historic covài, past participle covàto, auxiliary avére)",
      "name": "it-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "co‧và‧re"
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "a/ó"
      },
      "name": "it-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Italian",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "_dis": "23 28 15 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to brood, to incubate (an egg) (keep an egg warm) (of a bird)"
      ],
      "id": "en-covare-it-verb-o3k9FLEq",
      "links": [
        [
          "brood",
          "brood"
        ],
        [
          "incubate",
          "incubate"
        ]
      ],
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        "(transitive) to brood, to incubate (an egg) (keep an egg warm) (of a bird)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "23 28 15 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to brood, to protect, to foster"
      ],
      "id": "en-covare-it-verb-Usv7kzDQ",
      "links": [
        [
          "brood",
          "brood"
        ],
        [
          "protect",
          "protect"
        ],
        [
          "foster",
          "foster"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, figurative, by extension) to brood, to protect, to foster"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "figuratively",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "23 28 15 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              10,
              20
            ]
          ],
          "bold_literal_offsets": [
            [
              3,
              15
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              4,
              8
            ]
          ],
          "english": "hatred is welling up (within himself) against Enzo",
          "literal_meaning": "he is nurturing hatred for Enzo",
          "text": "lui cova odio per Enzo",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to cultivate, to nurture (an emotion, desire, etc.)"
      ],
      "id": "en-covare-it-verb-0rucqAyY",
      "links": [
        [
          "cultivate",
          "cultivate"
        ],
        [
          "nurture",
          "nurture"
        ]
      ],
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        "(transitive) to cultivate, to nurture (an emotion, desire, etc.)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "10 19 6 65",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Italian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 24 8 54",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Italian links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 16 11 58",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Italian verbs ending in -are",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 28 15 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "6 7 6 81",
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      "ipa": "/koˈva.re/"
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      "rhymes": "-are"
    }
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}
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      "word": "covaticcio"
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      "word": "covatoio"
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      "word": "covo"
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        "second-person"
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        "plural",
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        "past",
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        "singular"
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        "indicative",
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        "past",
        "plural",
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      "form": "covàrono",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "indicative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "coverò",
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        "future",
        "indicative",
        "singular"
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      "form": "coverài",
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        "future",
        "indicative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
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      "form": "coverà",
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        "future",
        "indicative",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "coverémo",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "indicative",
        "plural"
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        "plural",
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      "form": "coverèi",
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      "form": "coverèbbe",
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        "conditional",
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "coverébbe",
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      "tags": [
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        "third-person"
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      "form": "coverémmo",
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        "plural"
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      "form": "coveréste",
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      "form": "coverèbbero",
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        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "coverébbero",
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      "source": "conjugation",
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    },
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    },
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      "form": "covàssi",
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        "singular"
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        "plural",
        "second-person"
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    },
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        "to brood, to incubate (an egg) (keep an egg warm) (of a bird)"
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        "(transitive) to brood, to incubate (an egg) (keep an egg warm) (of a bird)"
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              8
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          "english": "hatred is welling up (within himself) against Enzo",
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              34
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          "english": "an unyielding anger was bottled up in her",
          "text": "covava in lei una rabbia irriducibile",
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        "to remain unexpressed; to be bottled up"
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          "avere#Italian"
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        "(intransitive) to remain unexpressed; to be bottled up [auxiliary avere]"
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      "ipa": "/koˈva.re/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-are"
    }
  ],
  "word": "covare"
}

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