appo
Italian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin apud with the confluence of ad post.
Pronunciation
Preposition
- at, nearby
- (figurative) in someone's regard
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XVIII, page 275, lines 133–135:
- Taïde è, la puttana che rispuose ¶ al drudo suo quando disse ‘Ho io grazie ¶ grandi apo te?’: ‘Anzi maravigliose!’.
- Thais the harlot is it, who replied unto her paramour, when he said, 'Have I great gratitude from thee?'--'Nay, marvellous'
- 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Proemio [Introduction]”, in Decamerone [Decameron][1], Tommaso Hedlin, published 1527, page xviii:
- Quantunque appo coloro, che diſcreti erano, & alla cui notitia pervenne, io ne foſſi lodato, & da molto piu reputato […]
- Whereby, among people of discernment to whose knowledge it had come, I had much praise and high esteem, […]
- (figurative) before; in comparison to
- 1581, Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata [Jerusalem Delivered][2], Erasmo Viotti, Canto I, page 14:
- ch'ogni antica memoria appo coſtoro ¶ perde
- for any antique memory is lost before them
- behind
- 1812, Annibale Caro, transl., Gli amori pastorali di Dafni e Cloe [The Bucolic Loves of Daphnis and Chloe][3], Società Tipografica de' Classici Italiani, translation of Δάφνις καὶ Χλόη (Dáphnis kaì Khlóē) by Longus, Ragionamento terzo, page 89:
- appiattandosi appo una macchia di pruni per non esser veduta, udì tutto che dicevano
- having crouched down behind some shrubs so as not to be seen, she heard everything they were saying
- Synonym: dietro
- Antonym: davanti
- after
- 1723, Anton Maria Salvini, transl., Iliade [Iliad][4], Milan: Giovanni Gaetano Tartini, Santi Franchi, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, Book I, page 9:
- Men vo alle navi, appo aver fatte in guerra ¶ ben gravi, e dure, e faticose imprese
- I return to the ships, after grave, hard and laborious war endeavours
- Synonym: dopo
- Antonym: prima