soverchio
See also: soverchiò
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Vulgar Latin *superculum. Compare Sicilian superchiu.
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Adjective edit
soverchio (feminine soverchia, masculine plural soverchi, feminine plural soverchie) (literary)
- excessive, overwhelming, over-
- 1336–1374, Francesco Petrarca, “LXXIII — Poi che per mio destino”, in Il Canzoniere, lines 4–8; republished as Daniele Ponchiroli, editor, Turin: publ. Giulio Einaudi, 1964:
- Amor ch’ a ciò m’invoglia,
Sia la mia scorta e ’nsegnimi ’l cammino,
E col desio le mie rime contempre;
Ma non in guisa che lo cor si stempre
Di soverchia dolcezza […]- May Love, who creates my longing, be my guide, and show me the road, and let my verse match my desire: but not so that the heart may be out of tune through overwhelming sweetness
- superfluous
- Synonym: superfluo
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Noun edit
soverchio m (uncountable) (literary)
- excess
- Synonym: eccesso
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXV”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 127–129; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- ciò che non corse in dietro e si ritenne
di quel soverchio, fé naso a la faccia
e le labbra ingrossò quanto convenne.- What did not backward run and was retained of that excess made to the face a nose, and the lips thickened far as was befitting.
- abuse, oppression
- Synonyms: sopraffazione, soverchieria
Adverb edit
soverchio
- (literary) too, too much, excessively
- Synonyms: eccessivamente, (literary) soverchiamente, troppo
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
soverchio
Further reading edit
- soverchio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana