miseramente
Italian
Etymology
Derived from misero, from Latin miserum, accusative form of miser.
Surface analysis: misera (“unhappy”, “bleak”) + -mente (“-ly”, adverbial derivational suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mizeraˈmente/, [mi.z̪e.r̺äˈme̞n̪.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ente
- Hyphenation: mi‧se‧ra‧men‧te
Adverb
miseramente
- miserably, wretchedly, pitifully
- 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto XIV, pp. 210, vv. 19-20:
- D'anime nude vidi molte gregge ¶ che piangean tutte assai miseramente, [...]
- Of naked souls beheld I many herds ¶ who all were weeping very miserably, [...]
- D'anime nude vidi molte gregge ¶ che piangean tutte assai miseramente, [...]
- 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto XIV, pp. 210, vv. 19-20:
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