razzo
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Latin radius. Doublet of raggio, radio, and rai, which were respectively inherited from Latin, borrowed from Latin, and borrowed from Occitan.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
razzo m (plural razzi)
- skyrocket (firework)
- 1559, Canti carnascialeschi, page 422:
- Fannosi i razzi, in più varie maniere;
Questi qui scoppian solo:
Quest'altri vanno à volo
Verso le stelle; e sol fan bel vedere:
Questi han doppio potere,
E letizia in lor varia,
Che girando, e scoppiando van per l'aria- Skyrockets are made in many different ways: some just explode; some others fly towards the stars, and are just a pretty sight; some have double power, and the amusement in them differs, while they go around the air and blow up.
- Ellipsis of razzo di segnalazione.
- rocket (rocket engine)
- (military) rocket (non guided missile)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of raggio (“ray, beam”)
- 13th c., Dante Alighieri, “De gli occhi de la mia donna si move”, in Società Dantesca Italiana, editor, Rime [Rhymes][1], Florence, published 1960, lines 1–6, collected in Le Opere di Dante:
- De gli occhi de la mia donna si move
un lume sì gentil, che dove appare
si veggion cose ch’uom non pò ritrare
per loro altezza e per lor esser nove:
e de’ suoi razzi sovra ’l meo cor piove
tanta paura, che mi fa tremare- From my mistress' eyes comes a light so gentle that, where it arrives, one sees things a man cannot report, for they are so elevated and new; and from her rays rains upon my heart such fear that it makes me tremble
- 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro Tredecimo [Thirteenth Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle][2], published 1991, section 18:
- Il terzo quartiere fu tutto il sesto di Borgo e quello di San Brancazio, e chiamarlo il quartiere di Santa Maria Novella, coll’arme il campo azurro e uno sole con razzi d’oro.
- The third neighbourhood/neighborhood was the whole part of Borgo and that of San Pancrazio, and was called the neighbourhood/neighborhood of Santa Maria Novella, with the coat of arms with an azure field, and a sun with golden rays.
- (regional) spoke (part of a wheel)
- Synonym: razza
- 1909, Luigi Pirandello, I vecchi e i giovani [The Elderly and the Young]:
- su la catasta formata dai razzi delle ruote, dagli sportelli, dai sedili, erano stati gettati i miserandi resti irriconoscibili dei due corpi
- on the stack made from the wheels' spokes, the doors, [and] the seats, the miserable remains of the two bodies were thrown
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
razzo m (plural razzi)
- Aphetic form of arazzo (“tapestry”)
- 1557, Sperone Speroni, Lettera a Giulia Sperona, published 1740, page 52, collected in Opere di M. Sperone Speroni degli Alvarotti - Tomo quinto:
- Fa che la casa sia apparecchiata , come t'ho scritto , delle spalliere del Bassan in sala e da basso , e di razzi nella camera , ove dormo
- Make it so that the house is furnished, as I wrote you, with Bassan's hangers in the living room and downstairs, and with tapestries in the room where I'll be sleeping.
Further reading edit
- rażżo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- razzo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana