Osterlicchi
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old High German Ostarrîchi.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Osterlicchi ?
- (archaic) Austria
- 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXII”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 25–28; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- Non fece al corso suo sì grosso velo
di verno la Danoia in Osterlicchi,
né Tanaï là sotto 'l freddo cielo,
com'era quivi […]- Along its course, the Danube in Austria during the winter never made such a thick crust as there was here, nor did the Don there, under the cold sky