vampa

vampa

1. third-person singular past historic of vamper

Gender change from vampo (“intense heat or brightness”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvam.pa/
• Rhymes: -ampa
• Hyphenation: vàm‧pa

vampa f (plural vampe)

1. heat, flame
   • c. 1316–1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XVII”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎, lines 7–9; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Per che mia donna «Manda fuor la vampa
     del tuo disio», mi disse, «sì ch’ella esca
     segnata bene de la interna stampa

     Therefore my Lady said to me: "Send forth the flame of thy desire, so that it issue imprinted well with the internal stamp"

2. (figurative) hot flush (skin sensation)
3. (figurative) burning sentiment

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

Borrowed from Italian vampa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvam.pa/

vampa f (plural vampi)

1. flame