confortare

to comfort

verb kon-for-TAH-reh Rare

Origin: From Latin confortare, to strengthen greatly.

Also means

to console

Usage Note

Confortare means to comfort or console someone in distress. It is more formal than consolare and can also carry the sense of confirming or bolstering (a hypothesis or belief) in written Italian. It takes avere as auxiliary: l'ho confortata (I comforted her). It conjugates regularly.

Examples

"Ha cercato di confortare l'amico in lutto."

Natural Translation

He tried to comfort his grieving friend.

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