evoluzione
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin ēvolūtiōnem (“unrolling, opening (a scroll)”, noun), derived from ēvolvō (“to unroll, unfold”).
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Noun edit
evoluzione f (plural evoluzioni)
- an ordered movement
- Synonym: movimento
- 1840–1842, Alessandro Manzoni, chapter VII, in I promessi sposi[1], Milan: Guglielmini e Redaelli, published in I promessi sposi - Storia della colonna infame:
- rasentando l’altro stipite, passò per isbieco, col fianco innanzi, per l’apertura lasciata da quella cariatide. I due compagni dovettero far la stessa evoluzione, se vollero entrare.
- Skimming along the other jamb, he went sideways, with his side in front, through the opening left by that old man. The two companions were to perform the same movement, had they wished to enter.
- (military) movement (one of a series of ordered movements)
- (figurative) evolution, progress, development
- Synonyms: progresso, sviluppo
- Antonym: involuzione
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Further reading edit
- evoluzione in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana