immillarsi
Italian
Alternative forms
- inmillarsi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /im.milˈlar.si/
- Rhymes: -arsi
- Hyphenation: im‧mil‧làr‧si
Verb
immillàrsi (first-person singular present mi immìllo, first-person singular past historic mi immillài, past participle immillàto)
- reflexive of immillare
- (literary, intransitive) to increase thousandfold, to multiply indefinitely
- 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XXVIII, page 506:
- L'incendio suo seguiva ogne scintilla; ¶ ed eran tante, che 'l numero loro ¶ più che 'l doppiar de li scacchi s'inmilla.
- Their coruscation all the sparks repeated; ¶ and they so many were, their number makes ¶ more millions than the doubling of the chess.
- 1903, Gabriele D'Annunzio, “Il vento scrive”, in Alcyone, Madrigali dell'estate:
- E par che nell’immenso arido viso ¶ della piaggia s'immilli il tuo sorriso.
- And your smile seems to multiply itself, in the vast arid visage of the beach.
- (literary, intransitive) to increase thousandfold, to multiply indefinitely
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