nuvola
See also: nùvoła
Italian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From a Latin nūbila, noun use of the feminine of nūbilus (“cloudy”), from nūbēs. Cognate with Sicilian nuvula. Compare Catalan núvol.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnu.vo.la/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -uvola
- Hyphenation: nù‧vo‧la
Noun
nuvola f (plural nuvole, diminutive nuvolétta or (less common) nuvolìna, augmentative nuvolone, pejorative nuvolàccia)
- cloud
- Synonym: nube
- early-mid 1310s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXX”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], 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:
- così dentro una nuvola di fiori
che da le mani angeliche saliva
e ricadeva in giù dentro e di fori- Thus in the bosom of a cloud of flowers which from those hands angelical ascended, and downward fell again inside and out
Related terms
Further reading
- nuvola in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- nuvola in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- nuvola in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- nuvola in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- nùvola in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- nùvola in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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