ancoi
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Venetian ancoi, from Old Occitan ancoi, derived from an unknown term + Latin hodiē (“today”). Compare Ligurian ancheu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /anˈkɔj/
- Rhymes: -ɔj
- Hyphenation: an‧còi
Adverb
ancoi
- (obsolete, Venice) today, nowadays
- Synonym: oggi
- early-mid 1310s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 52–54; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- Non credo che per terra vada ancoi
omo sì duro, che non fosse punto
per compassion di quel ch'i' vidi poi- I do not think there's anyone today walking the earth, hardened enough to not be pierced by compassion at what I saw afterwards
Further reading
- ancoi in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Venetian
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