allotta

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /alˈlɔt.ta/, [äl̺ˈl̺ɔt̪ːä]
  • Stress: allòtta
  • Hyphenation: al‧lot‧ta

Etymology 1

Contraction of all'otta (literally at the hour, at the time).

Adverb

allotta (obsolete)

  1. at the time, then (referring to the past)
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto XXXIV, p. 505 vv. 6-7:
      [...] par di lungi un molin che 'l vento gira, ¶ veder mi parve un tal dificio allotta;
      [...] appears far off a mill the wind is turning ¶ methought that such a building then I saw;

Etymology 2

Inflected form of the verb allottare.

Verb

allotta

  1. third-person singular present indicative of allottare
  2. second-person singular imperative of allottare

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