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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /a.donˈtar.si/
  • Rhymes: -arsi
  • Hyphenation: a‧don‧tàr‧si

Verb edit

adontàrsi (first-person singular present mi adónto, first-person singular past historic mi adontài, past participle adontàto)

  1. (obsolete) to take offence/take offense or feel insulted
    Synonym: sdegnarsi
    • mid 1300smid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VI”, in Inferno [Hell]‎[1], lines 70–72; 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:
      Alte terrà lungo tempo le fronti,
      tenendo l’altra sotto gravi pesi,
      come che di ciò pianga o che n’aonti.
      It will hold its forehead high for a long time, keeping the other under heavy burdens, whether it weeps or is indignant at that.

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  • In ancient times, the pronominal particle was sometimes not used in conjugating this verb.

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