supporre Italian · revision 38367

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /supˈpor.re/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''supporre''' (first-person singular present suppóngo, first-person singular past historic suppósi, past participle suppósto or suppòsto, first-person singular imperfect supponévo, auxiliary avére)^(Wiktionary)

+ Older and literary forms are ''sopporre'', ''soporre'' and ''supponere''.^(GDLI)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|suppōnō|alt=suppōnere|t=to put under; to substitute]], a compound of [[m|la|sub|t=under]] and [[m|la|pōnō|t=to put, place]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(GDLI)^(Wiktionary) The infinitive was refashioned on the native [[porre]], as Devoto notes.^(Devoto 1968)^(GRADIT 2003) Nocentini glosses the Latin verb “to place under; to suppose”, also in the sense “to substitute by deceit”.^(Nocentini 2010) Meyer-Lübke and Körting set the learned verb “to make a hypothesis” beside the inherited [[roa-oit|sopporre|t=to subject, put under]]; [[es|suponer]] is the same verb, while [[fr|supposer]] was remade on [[m|fr|poser]].^(REW 1935)^(Körting 1907)^(Nocentini 2010)

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+ De Vaan derives [[m|la|pōnō]] from an older [[itc-pro|*po-sine/o-|t=to put down]], a compound of the verb [[m|la|sinō|t=to let, allow]]: hence the old perfect ⟨posīvī⟩.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ DELI's first record of the sense “to imagine that something has happened or may happen in a certain way” is an Old Italian translation of Saint Augustine, perhaps of the 14th century, and it notes earlier records of other senses.^(DELI 1999) GDLI quotes Dante's ''Convivio'': ''Nulla scienza dimostra lo proprio subietto, ma suppone quello'' (“No science proves its own subject, but presupposes it”).^(GDLI)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The older senses, “to put under” and “to replace (one person or thing) with another”, are now archaic.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026) DEI records ''supporre'' in the sense “put under, put in another's place” from the 16th century.^(DEI|3680) The sense “to suppose, conjecture” is well attested from Galileo, before 1642.^(DELI 1999) The noun ''supposizione'' is recorded before 1406, in Francesco da Buti.^(DELI 1999)

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+ From the participle came ''supposta'', a suppository (before 1320), and in the 20th century ''supponente'' “presumptuous, arrogant” (1973) and ''supponenza'' (1980).^(Nocentini 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * Before 1320 – ''Supposta'' “suppository” is recorded.^(Nocentini 2010)

+ * 14th century – The verb is recorded in the sense “to assume”.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)

+ * Before 1406 – Francesco da Buti uses ''supposizione''.^(DELI 1999)

+ * Before 1642 – Galileo uses ''supporre'' “to suppose”.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1973 – ''Supponente'' is recorded.^(Nocentini 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(transitive)'' To [[m|en|suppose]], to assume as a hypothesis: ''Supponiamo che domani piova.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To presume, to believe: ''Suppongo che tu sia stanco.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(transitive, archaic)'' To put under.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)

+ # ''(transitive, archaic)'' To [[m|en|substitute]] one person or thing for another.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[supposizione]]

+ * [[supposto]]

+ * [[supposta]]

+ * [[supponente]]

+ * [[supponenza]]

+ * [[presupporre]]

+ * [[suppositorio]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[porre]]

+ * [[sottoporre]]

+ * [[la|suppono]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}