Italian

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /riˈpin.d͡ʒe.re/
  • Rhymes: -indʒere
  • Hyphenation: ri‧pìn‧ge‧re

Verb

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ripìngere (first-person singular present ripìngo, first-person singular past historic ripìnsi, past participle ripìnto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) Alternative form of respingere
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎[1], lines 58–60; 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:
      [] tal mi fece la bestia sanza pace, ¶ che, venendomi ’ncontro, a poco a poco ¶ mi ripigneva là dove ’l sol tace.
      The beast made me so peaceless that, coming towards me little by little, it pushed me back thither where the sun is silent.

Conjugation

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Further reading

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

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