Italian edit

Etymology edit

Coined by Dante Alighieri, derived from in- +‎ sempre (always) +‎ -are +‎ -si.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /in.semˈprar.si/
  • Rhymes: -arsi
  • Hyphenation: in‧sem‧pràr‧si

Verb edit

insempràrsi (first-person singular present mi insèmpro, first-person singular past historic mi insemprài, past participle insempràto)

  1. (intransitive, poetic, obsolete) to be or become eternal or everlasting
    • c. 13161321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto X”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎[1], lines 145–148; 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:
      così vid’ ïo la gloriosa rota
      muoversi e render voce a voce in tempra
      e in dolcezza ch’esser non pò nota
      se non colà dove gioir s’insempra.
      Thus I beheld the glorious wheel
      move round, and render voice to voice, in modulation
      and sweetness that can not be comprehended,
      excepting there where joy is made eternal.

Conjugation edit

Further reading edit

  • insemprarsi in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana