strale
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English stral, from Old English strǣl (“arrow”). More at streal.
Noun
editstrale (plural strales)
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editPart or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “strale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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editstrale
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editItalian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Lombardic strāla f (“arrow, beam”) (compare Middle High German strâle and Modern German Strahl m), from Proto-West Germanic *strālu. First attested in 1266.
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editNoun
editstrale m (plural strali)
- (literary, poetic) arrow, dart, thunderbolt
- (figurative, by extension) strike, blow
- Synonyms: colpo, trafittura, dolore
- 2000 [1472], Dante Alighieri, “Paradiso”, in Robert Hollander, Jean Hollander, transl., La Divina Commedia [The Divine Comedy], Doubleday:
- Tu lascerai ogne cosa diletta \ più caramente; e questo è quello strale \ che l'arco de lo essilio pria saetta.
- You shall leave behind all you most dearly love, \ and that shall be the arrow \ first loosed from exile's bow.
- (figurative, by extension) accusation or criticism; shots fired
- 2023 August 24, Alessandra Colarizi, “Il potere dei soldi di Pechino sul consenso del Sud globale: il “sogno sino-africano” di Xi al vertice dei Brics [The power of Beijing's money on the Global South: Xi's "Sino-African dream" at the BRICS summit]”, in il Fatto Quotidiano[1]:
- Ma è soprattutto contro gli Stati Uniti che sono diretti gli strali cinesi.
- But China's accusations are mostly leveled against the United States.
- racing dinghy for two people
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editEtymology
editFrom Old Dutch strāla, from Proto-West Germanic *strālu.
Noun
editstrâle f
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editFurther reading
edit- “strael”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “strael”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page strael
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