trasferire Italian · revision 38449

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1341–1342, Boccaccio|origins=la ferō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /tras.feˈri.re/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''trasferire''' (first-person singular present trasferìsco, first-person singular past historic trasferìi, past participle trasferìto, auxiliary avére)^(Wiktionary)

+ The older form is [[roa-oit|transferire]], and Dante has the Latin form ''transferre''.^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(DEI|3868)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|trānsferō|t=to carry across, transfer]], a learned borrowing moved into the verbs in “-ire”.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Nocentini 2010)^(DEI|3868) The Latin verb is a compound of [[m|la|trāns-|t=across, beyond]] and [[m|la|ferō|t=to carry]].^(DELI 1999)^(Wiktionary) Devoto thinks the shape was influenced by [[conferire]] and [[deferire]].^(Devoto 1968|450) The same Latin verb gave [[fr|transférer]] (14th century) and [[es|transferir]].^(Nocentini 2010)^(DEI|3868)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The first record is in Boccaccio, 1341–1342, with the sense “to make someone or something change place, seat or home”.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The reflexive ''trasferirsi'', to move house or change one's seat, appears in Guicciardini before 1540.^(DELI 1999) Tommaseo distinguished the verb from ''trasportare'': goods and furniture are carried (''trasportati''), but a court, a market or a residence is ''trasferito''.^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861) Zingarelli records an obsolete sense “to translate into another language”.^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ Today the verb is used above all for posting an employee to another office, moving an institution, and in law for passing a right or a property to someone else; figuratively one transfers feelings or anxieties onto another person.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026) The derivative ''trasferta'', an official journey away from one's seat, was condemned by Rigutini in 1886 as bureaucratic jargon, but survived and came to mean an away game in football (1955).^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * Before 1321 – Dante uses the Latin form ''transferre''.^(DEI|3868)

+ * 1341–1342 – Boccaccio uses ''trasferire''.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)

+ * Before 1540 – Guicciardini uses ''trasferirsi'' “to move”.^(DELI 1999)

+ * Before 1557 – Claudio Tolomei has ''trasferimento''.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1812 – ''Trasferta'' “official journey” is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1955 – ''Trasferta'' is used for a football team's away game.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|transfer]] an employee to another place of work: ''L’hanno trasferita nella filiale di Bari.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To move a home, an office or an institution to another place: ''La biblioteca sarà trasferita in centro.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To pass something from one field or authority to another.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # ''(law)'' To [[m|en|convey]] a right, a duty or a property to another holder.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To shift feelings, blame or ambitions onto someone or something.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(reflexive)'' ''Trasferirsi'': to move, to change one's home or seat: ''Si sono trasferiti in Svizzera.''^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[trasferimento]]

+ * [[trasferibile]]

+ * [[trasferta]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[conferire]]

+ * [[transfert]]

+ * [[la|trānsferō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}