immillarsi
Italian
Alternative forms
Etymology
immillare (“to increase thousandfold”) + -si (“oneself”, enclitic reflexive pronoun)
Surface analysis: in- (derivational prefix) + mille (“one thousand”) + -arsi (reflexive 1st conjugation verbal suffix)
Pronunciation
Verb
immillarsi
- reflexive of immillare
- (literary, intransitive) to increase thousandfold, to multiply indefinitely
- 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XXVIII, page 506:
- L'incendio suo seguiva ogne scintilla; ¶ ed eran tante, che 'l numero loro ¶ più che 'l doppiar de li scacchi s'inmilla.
- Their coruscation all the sparks repeated; ¶ and they so many were, their number makes ¶ more millions than the doubling of the chess.
- 1903, Gabriele D'Annunzio, “Il vento scrive”, in Alcyone, Madrigali dell'estate:
- E par che nell’immenso arido viso ¶ della piaggia s'immilli il tuo sorriso.
- And your smile seems to multiply itself, in the vast arid visage of the beach.
- (literary, intransitive) to increase thousandfold, to multiply indefinitely
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