auso
See also: ausò
Gothic edit
Romanization edit
ausō
- Romanization of 𐌰𐌿𐍃𐍉
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
A Dantean Latinism, learnedly borrowed from Latin ausus, perfect passive participle of audeō (“I dare”). Doublet of oso.
Pronunciation edit
Participle edit
auso (feminine ausa, masculine plural ausi, feminine plural ause)
- (literary, archaic) bold, daring
- Synonym: osato
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XXXII, page 571, lines 61–66:
- Lo rege per cui questo regno pausa ¶ in tanto amore e in tanto diletto, ¶ che nulla volontà è di più ausa, ¶ le menti tutte nel suo lieto aspetto ¶ creando, a suo piacer di grazia dota ¶ diversamente; e qui basti l'effetto.
- The king, by means of whom this realm rests in so great love and in so great delight that no will has dared asking for more, in his own joyous aspect every mind creating, at his pleasure endows with grace diversely; and let here the effect suffice.
Related terms edit
References edit
- auso in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
auso
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology 1 edit
Frequentative of audeō. Attested in only one manuscript[1] containing the Ars Asperi,[2] a grammatical work whose composition has been 'attributed to seventh-century Irish circles'.[3]
Verb edit
ausō (present infinitive ausāre, perfect active ausāvī, supine ausātum); first conjugation (Early Medieval Latin)
- to dare
Conjugation edit
Descendants edit
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References edit
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ausare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 1044
- ^ Hage, Hermann. 1870. Anecdota Helvetica quae ad grammaticam latinam spectant. In Heinrich Keil, Grammatici Latini 8. Leipzig. Page 50.
- ^ Field, Rosalind. 1999. Tradition and Transformation in Medieval Romance. Cambridge: Brewer. Page 5.
Etymology 2 edit
Participle edit
ausō
Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
ausō
- (Old Latin) first-person singular sigmatic future active indicative of audeō
Usage notes edit
See explanation at audeō.