soperchio

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /soˈpɛr.kjo/
  • Stress: sopèrchio
  • Hyphenation: so‧per‧chio

Adjective

soperchio (feminine singular soperchia, masculine plural soperchi, feminine plural soperchie)

  1. Obsolete form of soverchio.

Noun

soperchio m (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete form of soverchio.
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell] (paperback), 12th edition, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto VII, lines 43–48, page 109:
      Assai la voce lor chiaro l’abbaia, ¶ quando vegnono a’ due punti del cerchio ¶ dove colpa contraria li dispaia. ¶ Questi fuor cherci, che non han coperchio ¶ piloso al capo, e papi e cardinali, ¶ in cui usa avarizia il suo soperchio
      Clearly enough their voices bark it forth, whene'er they reach the two points of the circle, where sunders them the opposite defect. ⁠Clerks those were who no hairy covering have on the head, and Popes and Cardinals, in whom doth avarice practise its excess.

Adverb

soperchio

  1. Obsolete form of soverchio.
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