cammin

Italian

cammin m (apocopated)

(poetic, literary) Apocopic form of cammino; way, journey
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 1–3; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
  Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita ¶ mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, ¶ ché la diritta via era smarrita.
  Midway upon the journey of our life ¶ I found myself within a forest dark, ¶ for the straightforward pathway had been lost.

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