sprazzo
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsprat.t͡so/
- Rhymes: -attso
- Hyphenation: spràz‧zo
Noun
sprazzo m (plural sprazzi)
- a spray, a spurting out (of liquid)
- Synonym: zampillo
- early-mid 1310s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXIII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 67–69; 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:
- Di bere e di mangiar n'accende cura
l'odor ch'esce del pomo e de lo sprazzo
che si distende su per sua verdura.- Desire to eat and drink enkindles in us the scent that issues from the apple-tree, and from the spray that sprinkles o'er the verdure;
- (by extension) flash (of light; of intelligence)
- Synonym: lampo
- un sprazzo di luce ― a flash of light
- a sprazzi ― occasionally, now and then
- 1921, Alfredo Panzini, “Satana e Cristo”, in Il diavolo nella mia libreria:
- Si avvicinava la sera. Quello sprazzo di luce che tramonta, mi sembra il rosso manto che Satana trascina dietro: quelle stelle che laggiù appaiono, mi sembrano la corona di Ieova.
- The evening was approaching. That fading flash of light, it seems to me the red cloak that Satana dragged behind: those stars that matched down there, it seemed to me like Ieova's crown.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Further reading
- sprazzo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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