bragia

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Italian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈbra.d͡ʒa/
  • Rhymes: -adʒa
  • Hyphenation: brà‧gia

Noun[edit]

bragia f (plural bragie or brage) (regional or archaic)

  1. Alternative form of brace
    • mid 1300smid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Inferno [Hell]‎[1], lines 109–111; 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:
      Caron dimonio, con occhi di bragia
      loro accennando, tutte le raccoglie;
      batte col remo qualunque s'adagia.
      Charon the demon, with eyes of ember, by signaling to them [the souls of the damned], gathers them all; he hits with the oar any one [of them] who rests.
    • 1790s, Giuseppe Parini, Notte [Night]; collected in Opere dell’abate Giuseppe Parini[3], Venice: Giacomo Storti, 1803, page 34:
      [] All’un de’ lati
      crepitar s’odon le fiammanti brage
      On one side, you can hear the flaming embers crackle

Further reading[edit]

  • bragia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • bragia in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa

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