ammogliarsi
Italian
Etymology
ammogliare (“to give wife to”) + -si (“oneself”, enclitic reflexive pronoun)
Equivalent to a- (“towards”) + moglie (“wife”) + -arsi (reflexive 1st conjugation verbal suffix)
Pronunciation
Verb
ammogliarsi (reflexive)
- to take a wife, get married
- to wed (with)
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto I, page 14, lines 100–102:
- Molti son li animali a cui s'ammoglia, ¶ e più saranno ancora, infin che 'l veltro ¶ verrà, che la farà morir con doglia.
- Many the animals with whom she weds, ¶ and more they shall be still, until the Greyhound ¶ comes, who shall make her perish in her pain.