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{
"form": "menàndo",
"source": "conjugation",
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},
{
"form": "menànte",
"source": "conjugation",
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"participle",
"present"
]
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"form": "menàto",
"source": "conjugation",
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"past"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"indicative",
"present",
"singular"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"indicative",
"plural",
"present"
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},
{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"plural",
"present",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "ménano",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"indicative",
"plural",
"present",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "menàvo",
"source": "conjugation",
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"first-person",
"imperfect",
"indicative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "menàvi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperfect",
"indicative",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "menàva",
"source": "conjugation",
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"indicative",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
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"source": "conjugation",
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"imperfect",
"indicative",
"plural"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"indicative",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "menàvano",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperfect",
"indicative",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
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"source": "conjugation",
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"historic",
"indicative",
"past",
"singular"
]
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"form": "menàsti",
"source": "conjugation",
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"historic",
"indicative",
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "menò",
"source": "conjugation",
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"indicative",
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
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"source": "conjugation",
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"historic",
"indicative",
"past",
"plural"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"plural",
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]
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"form": "menàrono",
"source": "conjugation",
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"indicative",
"past",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "menerò",
"source": "conjugation",
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"future",
"indicative",
"singular"
]
},
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"source": "conjugation",
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"indicative",
"second-person",
"singular"
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},
{
"form": "menerà",
"source": "conjugation",
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"indicative",
"singular",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"future",
"indicative",
"plural"
]
},
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"source": "conjugation",
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"future",
"indicative",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
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"source": "conjugation",
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"future",
"indicative",
"plural",
"third-person"
]
},
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"source": "conjugation",
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"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "menerésti",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "menerèbbe",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"plural",
"present",
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},
{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"conditional",
"plural",
"present",
"third-person"
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},
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"singular",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"singular",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
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"plural",
"present",
"subjunctive"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"present",
"second-person",
"subjunctive"
]
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"source": "conjugation",
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"present",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
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"form": "menàssi",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"imperfect",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
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"source": "conjugation",
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"second-person",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
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"form": "menàsse",
"source": "conjugation",
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"imperfect",
"singular",
"subjunctive",
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]
},
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"source": "conjugation",
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"imperfect",
"plural",
"subjunctive"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"imperfect",
"plural",
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"subjunctive"
]
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{
"form": "menàssero",
"source": "conjugation",
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"imperfect",
"plural",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
]
},
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"form": "ména",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"negative",
"second-person",
"singular"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"imperative",
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"singular",
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"negative",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"negative",
"plural",
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"ref": "1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto I, page 7, lines 16–18",
"text": "guardai in alto e vidi le sue spalle ¶ vestite già de' raggi del pianeta ¶ che mena dritto altrui per ogne calle.\nUpward I looked, and I beheld its shoulders, ¶ vested already with that planet's rays ¶ which leadeth others right by every road.",
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{
"ref": "1374, Francesco Petrarca, “I' ho pregato Amor, e nel riprego [I have prayed to Love, and I pray again]”, in Il Canzoniere, Florence: Andrea Bettini, published 1858, page 48, lines 5–8",
"text": "I' nol posso negar, donna, e nol nego, ¶ che la ragion, ch'ogni buon alma affrena, ¶ non sia dal voler vinta; ond'ei mi mena ¶ talor in parte ov'io per forza il sego.\nI cannot deny, lady, and don’t deny ¶ that reason, that restrains all good souls, ¶ is overcome by passion: so he [Love] leads me ¶ at times to places where I unwillingly follow.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"english": "The excellence you endowed me with […] does not lead to bliss, but rather violently pulls towards unhappiness.",
"ref": "1827, Giacomo Leopardi, “Dialogo della Natura e di un'anima [Dialogue between Nature and a Soul]”, in Operette morali [Small Moral Works], Florence: Guglielmo Piatti, published 1834, page 65",
"text": "l'eccellenza della quale tu m'hai dotata […] non però mena alla beatitudine, anzi tira violentemente alla infelicità.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1840, Alessandro Manzoni, I promessi sposi.djvu), Tip. Guglielmini e Redaelli, Capitolo XXXII, page 607",
"text": "gl’infelici eran tempestati di pietre, o, presi, venivan menati, a furia di popolo, in prigione.\nthe unfortunates were bombarded with stones, or – when caught – dragged to prison by the mob.",
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"english": "The man was driving the chariot",
"text": "L'uomo menava il carro",
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"ref": "1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto V, page 73, lines 31–33",
"text": "La bufera infernal, che mai non resta, ¶ mena gli spirti con la sua rapina; ¶ voltando e percotendo li molesta.\nThe infernal hurricane that never rests ¶ hurtles the spirits onward in its rapine; ¶ whirling them round, and smiting, it molests them.",
"type": "quotation"
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"english": "And when, from the snowy air, you bring long, restless darkness to the universe, you always come down when summoned, and gently hold the secret ways of my heart.",
"ref": "1803, Ugo Foscolo, “Alla sera [In the Evening]”, in Sonetti [Sonnets]), collected in Opere scelte di Ugo Foscolo, vol. 2, Florence, published 1835, page 116",
"text": "E quando dal nevoso aere inquiete ¶ tenebre, e lunghe, all’universo meni, ¶ sempre scendi invocata, e le secrete ¶ vie del mio cor soavemente tieni.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"english": "they used to pray and give praise to Mercury, conductor of dreams, so that he'd bring them happy ones",
"ref": "1827, Giacomo Leopardi, “Dialogo di Torquato Tasso e del suo genio familiare”, in Operette morali [Small Moral Works], Florence: Guglielmo Piatti, published 1834, page 106",
"text": "solevano orare e far orazioni a Mercurio conduttore dei sogni, acciò ne menasse loro di quei lieti",
"type": "quotation"
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"word": "recare"
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"ref": "13ᵗʰ century, Guido Cavalcanti, “Se non ti caggia la tua santalena”, in Rime.djvu), Nicola Zanichelli, published 1902, lines 5–6",
"text": "dimmi se ’l frutto che la terra mena ¶ nasce di secco, di caldo o di molle;\ntell me whether the fruit that the earth begets ¶ is born from dryness, warmth, or dampness",
"type": "quotation"
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"to produce, beget"
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"ref": "1803, Ugo Foscolo, “Meritamente [Deservedly]”, in Sonetti [Sonnets]), collected in Opere scelte di Ugo Foscolo, vol. 2, Florence, published 1835, page 118",
"text": "In lungo esilio fra spergiure genti ¶ dal bel paese ove or meni sì rei, ¶ me sospirando, i tuoi giorni fiorenti\nIn a long exile, among faithless peoples, from the fair country where – sighing for me – you spend your thriving days, so guilty",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "It was the odorous May, and that was how you spent the day.",
"ref": "1835, Giacomo Leopardi with Alessandro Donati, “A Silvia [To Silvia]”, in Canti.djvu), Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, page 79, lines 13–14",
"text": "Era il maggio odoroso: e tu solevi ¶ cosí menare il giorno",
"type": "quotation"
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"word": "trascorrere"
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{
"english": "The proud and fearful Rodomont speeds, whirling his bloody brand.",
"ref": "1516, Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso [Raging Roland], Venice: Printed by Gabriel Giolito, published 1551, Canto XVI, page 66",
"text": "Corre il fiero, e terribil Rodomonte, ¶ e la ſanguigna ſpada a cerco mena.",
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"(vulgar, slang) masturbate"
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"word": "spugnettare"
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{
"word": "spipettare"
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"word": "smanettare"
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{
"ref": "a. 1846, Giuseppe Giusti, “Lo stivale [The Boot]”, in Poesie Italiane, 3rd edition, published 1846, page 84",
"text": "Da quel momento ognuno in santa pace ¶ la lesina menando e la tanaglia, ¶ cascai dalla padella nella brace\nThenceforth, with everyone at peace, ¶ while using the bradawl and the pincers, ¶ I got out of the frying pan, into the fire",
"type": "quotation"
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"to use (of a tool)"
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"ref": "1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto I, page 7, lines 16–18",
"text": "guardai in alto e vidi le sue spalle ¶ vestite già de' raggi del pianeta ¶ che mena dritto altrui per ogne calle.\nUpward I looked, and I beheld its shoulders, ¶ vested already with that planet's rays ¶ which leadeth others right by every road.",
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"text": "I' nol posso negar, donna, e nol nego, ¶ che la ragion, ch'ogni buon alma affrena, ¶ non sia dal voler vinta; ond'ei mi mena ¶ talor in parte ov'io per forza il sego.\nI cannot deny, lady, and don’t deny ¶ that reason, that restrains all good souls, ¶ is overcome by passion: so he [Love] leads me ¶ at times to places where I unwillingly follow.",
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"text": "La bufera infernal, che mai non resta, ¶ mena gli spirti con la sua rapina; ¶ voltando e percotendo li molesta.\nThe infernal hurricane that never rests ¶ hurtles the spirits onward in its rapine; ¶ whirling them round, and smiting, it molests them.",
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"english": "And when, from the snowy air, you bring long, restless darkness to the universe, you always come down when summoned, and gently hold the secret ways of my heart.",
"ref": "1803, Ugo Foscolo, “Alla sera [In the Evening]”, in Sonetti [Sonnets]), collected in Opere scelte di Ugo Foscolo, vol. 2, Florence, published 1835, page 116",
"text": "E quando dal nevoso aere inquiete ¶ tenebre, e lunghe, all’universo meni, ¶ sempre scendi invocata, e le secrete ¶ vie del mio cor soavemente tieni.",
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"ref": "1827, Giacomo Leopardi, “Dialogo di Torquato Tasso e del suo genio familiare”, in Operette morali [Small Moral Works], Florence: Guglielmo Piatti, published 1834, page 106",
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"ref": "13ᵗʰ century, Guido Cavalcanti, “Se non ti caggia la tua santalena”, in Rime.djvu), Nicola Zanichelli, published 1902, lines 5–6",
"text": "dimmi se ’l frutto che la terra mena ¶ nasce di secco, di caldo o di molle;\ntell me whether the fruit that the earth begets ¶ is born from dryness, warmth, or dampness",
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"ref": "1803, Ugo Foscolo, “Meritamente [Deservedly]”, in Sonetti [Sonnets]), collected in Opere scelte di Ugo Foscolo, vol. 2, Florence, published 1835, page 118",
"text": "In lungo esilio fra spergiure genti ¶ dal bel paese ove or meni sì rei, ¶ me sospirando, i tuoi giorni fiorenti\nIn a long exile, among faithless peoples, from the fair country where – sighing for me – you spend your thriving days, so guilty",
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"english": "It was the odorous May, and that was how you spent the day.",
"ref": "1835, Giacomo Leopardi with Alessandro Donati, “A Silvia [To Silvia]”, in Canti.djvu), Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, page 79, lines 13–14",
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"english": "The proud and fearful Rodomont speeds, whirling his bloody brand.",
"ref": "1516, Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso [Raging Roland], Venice: Printed by Gabriel Giolito, published 1551, Canto XVI, page 66",
"text": "Corre il fiero, e terribil Rodomonte, ¶ e la ſanguigna ſpada a cerco mena.",
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"ref": "a. 1846, Giuseppe Giusti, “Lo stivale [The Boot]”, in Poesie Italiane, 3rd edition, published 1846, page 84",
"text": "Da quel momento ognuno in santa pace ¶ la lesina menando e la tanaglia, ¶ cascai dalla padella nella brace\nThenceforth, with everyone at peace, ¶ while using the bradawl and the pincers, ¶ I got out of the frying pan, into the fire",
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"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/meˈna.re/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-are"
}
],
"word": "menare"
}
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