abisso
See also: abissò
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈbis.so/, [äˈbis̪s̪o]
- Rhymes: -isso
- Stress: abìsso
- Hyphenation: a‧bis‧so.
Etymology 1
From Late Latin abyssus, from Ancient Greek ἄβῠσσος (ábussos, “bottomless”).
Noun
abisso m (plural abissi)
- abyss, gulf
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell] (paperback), 12th edition, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto IV, lines 23–27, page 54:
- Così si mise e così mi fé intrare ¶ nel primo cerchio che l’abisso cigne. ¶ Quivi, secondo che per ascoltare, ¶ non avea pianto mai che di sospiri ¶ che l’aura etterna facevan tremare
- Thus he went in, and thus he made me enter the foremost circle that surrounds the abyss. There, in so far as I had power to hear, were lamentations none, but only sighs, that tremulous made the everlasting air.
- 1825, Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade [Iliad], Milan: Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, published 1840, Book XXII, lines 463–466, page 479:
- Così detto, spirò. Sciolta dal corpo ¶ Prese l’alma il suo vol verso l’abisso, ¶ Lamentando il suo fato ed il perduto ¶ Fior della forte gioventude.
- Having said that, he passed. His soul, released from the body, took flight towards the abyss, lamenting its fate and the lost flower of strong youth.
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Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
References
- abisso in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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