dannaggio
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French damage, Old Occitan damnatge, from Vulgar Latin *damnāticum, derived from Latin damnum (“damage”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]dannaggio m (plural dannaggi)
- (obsolete) damage, harm
- Synonym: danno
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXX”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 136–141; 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:
- Qual è colui che suo dannaggio sogna,
che sognando desidera sognare,
sì che quel ch’è, come non fosse, agogna,
tal mi fec’ io, non possendo parlare,
che disïava scusarmi, e scusava
me tuttavia, e nol mi credea fare.- And as he is who dreams of his own harm,
who dreaming wishes it may be a dream,
so that he craves what is, as if it were not;
such I became, not having power to speak,
for to excuse myself I wished,
and still excused myself, and did not think I did it.
- And as he is who dreams of his own harm,
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- dannaggio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Categories:
- Italian terms derived from Old French
- Italian terms derived from Old Occitan
- Italian terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian 3-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/addʒo
- Rhymes:Italian/addʒo/3 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- Italian obsolete terms
- Italian terms with quotations