badia
See also: Badia
Catalan
Further reading
- “badia” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “badia” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “badia” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “badia” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Italian
Etymology
From Late Latin abbātīa, derived from Latin abbās (“abbot”). Doublet of abbazia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baˈdi.a/
- Stress: badìa
- Hyphenation: ba‧di‧a
Noun
badia f (plural badie)
- abbey
- Synonym: abbazia
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XXII, lines 73–78, page 405–406:
- Ma, per salirla, mo nessun diparte ¶ da terra i piedi, e la regola mia ¶ rimasa è per danno de le carte. ¶ Le mura che solieno esser badia ¶ fatte sono spelonche, e le cocolle ¶ sacca son piene di farina ria.
- But to ascend it now no one uplifts his feet from off the earth, and now my Rule below remaines for mere waste of paper. The walls that used of old to be an Abbey are changed to dens of robbers, and the cowls are sacks filled full of miserable flour.
- 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro quinto [Fifth Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle], published 1991, section 2:
- tornato in Firenze, tutto suo patrimonio d’Alamagna fece vendere, e ordinò e fece fare sette badie: la prima fu la Badia di Firenze a onore di santa Maria
- Having returned to Florence, he had all his property in Germany sold, and commissioned the making of seven abbeys: the first one was the abbey of Florence, in honor of St. Mary
- (figuratively) abundance; well-being
Latin
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