plurisemia

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Italian

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Etymology

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From pluri- +‎ sema +‎ -ia.

Noun

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plurisemia f (countable and uncountable, plural plurisemie)

  1. (rare) Synonym of polisemia
    • (Can we date this quote?), Umberto Bosco, Giovanni Reggio, edited by Mondadori Education S.p.A., Divina Commedia. Inferno, Milan, published 2016, →ISBN, page 32:
      Ma rovinare ha senso più morale che fisico: la plurisemia di tutto l'episodio obbliga sempre a trasferire le immagini figurative in un superiore significato emblematico.
      But rovinare has more of a moral meaning rather than a physical one: the polysemy of the entire episode forces us to transfer the figurative images into a higher emblematic meaning.