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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

Mettere da parte

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ˈmettere da ˈparte

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Set-aside/ˈsɛt.əˌsaɪd/
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Ha deciso di mettere da parte dei soldi per la sua vacanza."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To reserve or keep something for a particular purpose.

    "She decided to set aside some money for her vacation."
  2. 2

    To disregard or dismiss something temporarily.

    "He set aside his concerns to focus on the task at hand."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the phrasal verb 'set aside', combining the Old English root 'settan' (to cause to sit, place) with the directional adverb 'aside' (from Old English 'on sīdan'). Over centuries, the idiom evolved from its literal spatial sense of placing an object to the side into a figurative practice of reserving resources or deferring matters.

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