sovente
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Interlingua
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Italian.
Adverb
[edit]sovente (comparative plus sovente, superlative le plus sovente)
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old French sovent, from Latin subinde.[1] See French souvent.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]sovente
- (literary) often
- Synonyms: frequentemente, spesso
- 1980, Umberto Eco, “Primo giorno - Sesta”, in Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose] (I grandi tascabili), Milan: Bompiani, published 1984, page 57:
- I miei maestri di Melk mi avevano detto sovente che è molto difficile per un nordico farsi idee chiare sulle vicende religiose e politiche d'Italia.
- My masters at Melk often told me how difficult it would be for a Nordic person to clearly understand Italian religious and political affairs.
Adjective
[edit]sovente (plural soventi)
- (archaic, rare) frequent
- Synonym: frequente
- Antonym: infrequente
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Migliorini, Bruno with Aldo Duro (1950) Prontuario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Paravia
Further reading
[edit]- sovente in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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