sciaurato

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): */ʃawˈra.to/
  • Rhymes: -ato
  • Hyphenation: sciau‧rà‧to

Adjective

sciaurato (feminine sciaurata, masculine plural sciaurati, feminine plural sciaurate)

  1. (poetic or dialectal) Alternative form of sciagurato
    • mid 1300smid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 63–66; 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:
      Questi sciaurati, che mai non fur vivi
      erano ignudi e stimolati molto
      da mosconi e da vespe ch'eran ivi.
      These wretches, who never had been alive
      were naked and bitten a great deal
      by mosquitoes and by wasps which were in that place.

Further reading

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