attoscare

Italian

Etymology

From a- (to, towards) + tosco (poison, poetic variant of tossico) + -are (1st-conjugation verbal suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /at.toˈska.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: at‧to‧scà‧re

Verb

attoscàre (first-person singular present attòsco, first-person singular past historic attoscài, past participle attoscàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (poetic, transitive) Alternative form of attossicare
    • mid 1300smid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VI”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 82–84; 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:
      dimmi ove sono e fa ch'io li conosca;
      ché gran disio mi stringe di savere
      se 'l ciel li addolcia o lo 'nferno li attosca
      Tell me where they are, and let me know about them, for I have a great desire to know if heaven makes them happy, or if hell poisons them

Conjugation

Further reading

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

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