etternale

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /et.terˈna.le/
• Rhymes: -ale
• Hyphenation: et‧ter‧nà‧le

Adjective

etternale (plural etternali)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of eternale
   • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIV”, in Inferno [Hell]‎^[1], lines 31–33, 37; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[2], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Quali Alessandro in quelle parti calde
     d'Indïa vide sopra 'l süo stuolo
     fiamme cadere infino a terra salde,
     […]
     tale scendeva l’etternale ardore

     As Alexander, in those torrid parts
     of India, beheld upon his host
     flames fall unbroken till they reached the ground,
     […]
     thus was descending the eternal heat

Anagrams

• tenertela