miseramente
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From misero, from Latin miserum. By surface analysis, misera (“unhappy”, “bleak”) + -mente (“-ly”, adverbial derivational suffix)
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
miseramente
- miserably, wretchedly, pitifully
- 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XIV, pp. 210, vv. 19-20:
- D'anime nude vidi molte gregge ¶ che piangean tutte assai miseramente, [...]
- Of naked souls beheld I many herds ¶ who all were weeping very miserably, [...]