miseramente

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From misero, from Latin miserum. By surface analysis, misera (unhappy”, “bleak) +‎ -mente (-ly, adverbial derivational suffix)

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /mi.ze.raˈmen.te/
  • Rhymes: -ente
  • Hyphenation: mi‧se‧ra‧mén‧te

Adverb[edit]

miseramente

  1. miserably, wretchedly, pitifully
    • 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XIV, pp. 210, vv. 19-20:
      D'anime nude vidi molte gregge ¶ che piangean tutte assai miseramente, [...]
      Of naked souls beheld I many herds ¶ who all were weeping very miserably, [...]

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