destarsi
Italian
Etymology
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destar(e) (“to wake [someone] up, to arouse”) + -si (“oneself”, enclitic reflexive pronoun)
Pronunciation
Verb
destarsi
- (reflexive) To wake, wake up.
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto VI, lines 94–96:
- E 'l duca disse a me: «Più non si desta ¶ di qua dal suon de l'angelica tromba, ¶ quando verrà la nimica podesta [...]»
- And the Guide said to me: "He wakes no more ¶ this side the sound of the angelic trumpet; ¶ when shall approach the hostile Potentate"
- (reflexive) To awaken.