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)
- (poetic, transitive) Alternative form of attossicare
- mid 1300s–mid 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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