inveggiare
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in.vedˈd͡ʒa.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: in‧veg‧già‧re
Verb
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- (obsolete) to celebrate, to praise
- 1321 c., Dante Alighieri, “Canto XII”, in Paradiso, lines 142–145; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata, 2nd revised edition, Florence: Casa Editrice Le Lettere, 1994:
- Ad inveggiar cotanto paladino
mi mosse l’infiammata cortesia
di fra Tommaso e ’l discreto latino- To celebrate so great a paladin
have moved me the impassioned courtesy
and the discreet discourses of Friar Thomas
- To celebrate so great a paladin
- [1574, Vincenzo Borghini, Annotationi et discorsi sopra alcuni luoghi del Decameron, page 128:
- è detto Inveggiare non tanto al modo antico, quanto al propio et naturale di questo paese, che in simil voci muta il D, volentieri in due G. come Vedo, Siedo, chiedo, in Veggio, Seggio, cheggio
- One says Inveggiare not as an ancient way, but rather the proper and natural way of this country, that, in similar words, gladly changes the D into two Gs, as in vedo, siedo, chiedo becoming veggio, seggio, cheggio]
Conjugation
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Further reading
- inveggiare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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