deità

See also: deita

Italian

Etymology

Apocopation of earlier deitade, deitate, from Latin deitātem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dejˈta/*
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: dei‧tà

Noun

deità f (invariable)

  1. (literary) godhood, divinity
    Synonym: divinità
    Antonyms: mortalità, umanità
  2. (literary) deity, god, divinity
    Synonyms: dio, divinità, (literary) divo, (literary) nume
    • c. 13161321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 28–33; 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:
      Sì rade volte, padre, se ne coglie
      per trïunfare o cesare o poeta,
      colpa e vergogna de l’umane voglie,
      che parturir letizia in su la lieta
      delfica deïtà dovria la fronda
      peneia, quando alcun di sé asseta.
      So seldom, Father, do we gather them for triumph or of Caesar or of Poet, the fault and shame of human inclinations, that the Peneian foliage should bring forth joy to the joyous Delphic deity, when any one it makes to thirst for it.

Further reading

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

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