dannaggio

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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]

  • IPA(key): /danˈnad.d͡ʒo/
  • Rhymes: -addʒo
  • Hyphenation: dan‧nàg‧gio

Noun[edit]

dannaggio m (plural dannaggi)

  1. (obsolete) damage, harm
    Synonym: danno
    • mid 1300smid 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.

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Further reading[edit]

  • dannaggio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana