ritratto
See also: ritrattò
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian ritratto. Doublet of retract, retrait, and retreat.
Noun edit
ritratto (plural ritrattos or ritrattoes)
- (obsolete) A picture; a portrait.
- 1722, Jonathan Richardson, An Account of Some of the Statues, Bas-reliefs, Drawings and Pictures in Italy, &c, page 344:
- Here are the Ritrattoes of the Family; amongst others some by Titian, Giorgion, &c […]
- 1738, John Breval, Remarks on Several Parts of Europe, page 147:
- A little beyond this Vestibule […] is what they call the Painter's Chamber, fill'd from Top to Bottom, with the Ritrattos of all the most famous Men in that Art […]
- 1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman:
- ——'tis more like a ritratto of the shadow of vanity, than of VANITY herself——of the two; resembling rather a faint thought of transient applause, secretly stirring up in the heart of the composer, than a gross mark of it, coarsely obtruded upon the world.
References edit
- “ritratto”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adjective edit
ritratto (feminine ritratta, masculine plural ritratti, feminine plural ritratte)
Noun edit
ritratto m (plural ritratti)
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Participle edit
ritratto (feminine ritratta, masculine plural ritratti, feminine plural ritratte)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
ritratto