suggerire Italian · revision 38927

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=before 1540, Francesco Guicciardini|origins=la gerō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /sud.d͡ʒeˈri.re/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''suggerire''' (first-person singular present suggerìsco, first-person singular past historic suggerìi, past participle suggerìto, auxiliary avére)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a learned word, [[bor|la|suggerō|t=to supply, to add; to prompt, to suggest]], moved from the Latin third conjugation to the Italian third.^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(Zingarelli 2010) The Latin verb is a compound of [[m|la|sub-|t=under]] and [[m|la|gerō|t=to carry]], so that it meant literally “to carry up from below”.^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011) DELI and the GDLI call the origin of the simple verb unknown or uncertain.^(DELI 1999)^(GDLI)

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+ The same Latin verb gave [[fr|suggérer]] and [[es|sugerir]].^(Nocentini 2010) Its supine stem is behind [[m|la|suggestiō]], which gave the literary [[suggestione]]; [[suggestivo]] is formed on that noun, not on the Italian verb.^(Prati 1951|962)^(Nocentini 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ DELI's first record is in Francesco Guicciardini, who died in 1540, in the sense “to bring to mind, to propose”.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003) Guicciardini also used it in the old sense “to supply, to furnish”: the Pope had been given grounds for anger.^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Prati 1951|962) Zingarelli dates the verb to 1475.^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In the 17th and 18th centuries the verb was used above all for advice: to point out a way of acting, to pass on information, as in Muratori's remark on ministers who do not trouble to “suggest to the prince” how to cure the people's ills.^(GDLI) The theatrical and schoolroom sense, whispering to someone what they have to say, is recorded by Tommaseo in 1873.^(DELI 1999)^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)

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+ The agent noun ''suggeritore'' appears before 1673, and, from 1827 it names the prompter of the theatre, who sits out of sight and whispers the lines to the actors;^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010) Milanese already had ''suggeridor'' in 1814.^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010) ''Suggerimento'', a suggestion, follows in the 18th century.^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1475 – Zingarelli's date for the first record.^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ * Before 1540 – Francesco Guicciardini uses ''suggerire'' for “to bring to mind, to propose”.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)

+ * Before 1673 – ''Suggeritore'' “one who suggests” is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1745 – ''Suggerimento'' appears in Bergantini's word list.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1827 – ''Suggeritore'' is first used for the theatre prompter.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1873 – Tommaseo records the sense “to whisper to someone what they should say”.^(DELI 1999)^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(transitive)'' To [[m|en|prompt]], to whisper to someone what they have to say, so that others do not notice: ''Durante il compito qualcuno mi ha suggerito la data.'' Also without an object, of pupils helping one another.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To bring to mind, to evoke: ''Quella canzone mi suggerisce ricordi d'infanzia.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To [[m|en|suggest]], to advise, to propose: ''Mi hanno suggerito un buon ristorante''; with ''di'' and an infinitive, to advise someone to do something.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(theatre)'' Of the prompter, to give the actors their lines.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[suggerimento]]

+ * [[suggeritore]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[suggestione]]

+ * [[suggestivo]]

+ * [[la|suggerō]]

+ * [[fr|suggérer]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}