Italian edit

Etymology edit

From disnodare (to untie) +‎ -si (oneself, enclitic reflexive pronoun).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /di.znoˈdar.si/
  • Rhymes: -arsi
  • Hyphenation: di‧sno‧dàr‧si

Verb edit

disnodàrsi (first-person singular present mi disnòdo, first-person singular past historic mi disnodài, past participle disnodàto) (intransitive)

  1. reflexive of disnodare
  2. to free oneself, to break free [+ da (object) = from]
    Synonym: liberarsi
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XXXI, page 558, lines 88–90:
      La tua magnificenza in me custodi, ¶ sì che l'anima mia, che fatt'hai sana, ¶ piacente a te dal corpo si disnodi
      Preserve towards me thy magnificence, so that this soul of mine, which thou hast healed, pleasing to thee be loosened from the body

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