malvolere
Italian
Alternative forms
- mal volere
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mal.voˈle.re/
- Rhymes: -ere
- Hyphenation: mal‧vo‧lé‧re
Verb
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- (transitive) to dislike
Conjugation
- This is a defective verb and only the past participle (malvoluto) and present participle (malvolente) are used.
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Noun
malvolere m (plural malvoleri)
- (uncommon) malevolence, ill will
- 1314, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXI”, in Inferno, line 56; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata, 2nd revised edition, Florence: Casa Editrice Le Lettere, 1994:
- ché dove l'argomento de la mente
s'aggiugne al mal volere e a la possa,
nessun riparo vi può far la gente.- For where the instrument of the mind joins together with ill will and might, there's no shelter people can take against it.
See also
Further reading
- malvolere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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