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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Venetian ancoi, from Old Occitan ancoi, derived from an unknown term + Latin hodiē (“today”). Compare Ligurian ancheu.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
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- (obsolete, Venice) today, nowadays
- Synonym: oggi
- 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory][1], lines 52–54; 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 credo che per terra vada ancoi
omo sì duro, che non fosse punto
per compassion di quel ch'i' vidi poi- I do not think there's anyone today walking the earth, hardened enough to not be pierced by compassion at what I saw afterwards
Further reading
[edit]- ancoi in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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Noun
[edit]ancoi m (invariable)
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