interventire

Interventire is a rarely attested Italian verb that denotes the act of intervening or carrying out an intervention. In contemporary standard Italian, the preferred verb for this meaning is intervenire; interventire is not commonly listed in major dictionaries and is generally considered nonstandard or archaic. The term may appear in historical or regional texts, or as a deliberate stylistic variant in some writings to emphasize the agency or decisiveness of an intervention.

Etymology and relation to standard Italian forms point to a common ancestry with intervenire, both deriving from Latin inter- “between” and venire “to come.” The form interventire resembles intervenire but is distinguished by its characteristic phonetic development, which appears only in limited or specialized uses rather than as part of everyday speech.

Usage and context: When interventire does surface, it is typically in contexts that stress the act of intervention itself—such as political, military, humanitarian, or emergency-response discourse—where authors seek to foreground decisive action. In most modern texts, however, authors would employ intervenire or related nouns such as intervento (intervention) and the agent noun intervenitore (intervener). As a result, interventire remains mostly of historical, regional, or niche interest, rather than a standard lexeme in Italian.

See also: intervenire, intervento, intervenitore. Interventire is sometimes discussed in linguistic notes as an example of regional or archaic variation, but it is not a common or authoritative form in standard Italian usage.