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demandare

Demandare is an Italian verb meaning to entrust, to commit, or to assign responsibility or a task to someone, or to refer a matter to a committee or authority. It is used in formal, administrative, and legal language and can take a direct object such as un incarico (a task), una questione (a matter), or un mandato (a mandate). The action often implies delegating decision-making or processing to a designated body or person. It is distinct from chiedere or domandare (to ask) and from esigere (to demand).

Etymology and usage notes: Demandare originates from Latin demandāre, meaning to entrust, formed from de- plus

Contexts and nuances: In contemporary Italian, demandare is relatively formal and less common in everyday speech.

Examples:

- Il ministro ha demandato la revisione della normativa al dipartimento competente.

- La questione è stata demandata al comitato per ulteriori analisi.

- L’amministrazione ha demandato al referente locale la gestione del progetto.

See also: affidare, incaricare, delegare, domandare, chiedere, esigere.

mandare
(to
entrust/command).
In
Italian,
it
entered
the
language
in
medieval
and
modern
forms,
and
today
it
appears
mainly
in
formal
registers.
The
verb
conjugates
as
a
regular
-are
verb
in
standard
Italian;
the
past
participle
is
demandato
(masc)
/
demandata
(fem).
It
frequently
appears
in
government
directives,
legal
opinions,
corporate
memoranda,
and
administrative
texts,
where
it
expresses
the
act
of
delegating
the
handling
of
a
matter
to
another
person
or
body.