avvampare

Italian

Etymology

From a- (to, towards) + vampa (heat; flame) + -are (1st conjugation verbal suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /av.vamˈpa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: av‧vam‧pà‧re

Verb

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

  1. (intransitive) to flare up, to flame [auxiliary essere]
  2. (intransitive, by extension) to redden, to blush [auxiliary essere]
  3. (intransitive, by extension) to burn [auxiliary essere]
    • 1835, Giacomo Leopardi with Alessandro Donati, “Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia [Night Song of a Wandering Shepherd in Asia]”, in Canti, Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, page 89, lines 37–40:
      Vecchierel bianco, infermo,
      mezzo vestito e scalzo,
      con gravissimo fascio in su le spalle,
      per montagna e per valle,
      per sassi acuti, ed alta rena, e fratte,
      al vento, alla tempesta, e quando avvampa
      l’ora, e quando poi gela,
      corre via, corre, anela
      An old man, white-haired, infirm, barefoot and half-naked, with a heavy load on his shoulders, over mountains, through the valleys, on sharp stones, in sand and thickets, wind and storm, when the days burn and when they freeze, runs onwards, runs and pants
    1. (figurative, literary) to flame (in violence of passion)
      • c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXV”, in Paradiso, lines 82–87; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata, 2nd revised edition, Florence: Casa Editrice Le Lettere, 1994:
        Indi spirò: «L’amore ond’io avvampo
        ancor ver’ la virtù che mi seguette
        infin la palma e a l’uscir del campo,
        vuol ch’io respiri a te che ti dilette
        di lei; ed emmi a grato che tu diche
        quello che la speranza ti ’mpromette».
        Then breathed: "The love wherewith I am inflamed towards the virtue still which followed me unto the palm and issue of the field, wills that I breathe to thee that thou delight in her; and grateful to me is thy telling whatever things Hope promises to thee."
      • 1374, Francesco Petrarca, “Solo e pensoso i più deserti campi”, in Il Canzoniere, Florence: Andrea Bettini, published 1858, page 21, lines 5–8:
        Altro schermo non trovo che mi scampi
        Dal manifesto accorger delle genti;
        Perché negli atti d’allegrezza spenti
        Di fuor si legge com’io dentro avvampi
        I find no other defence/defense to protect me from other people’s open notice, since in my aspect, whose joy is quenched, they see from outside how I flame within
  4. (literary, transitive) to light, to set alight, to kindle
  5. (literary, figurative, transitive) to kindle, to arouse
  6. (transitive) to singe, to scorch

Conjugation

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • avvampare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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