roccia
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old French roche, from Early Medieval Latin rocca, of uncertain origin. Doublet of rocca.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
roccia f (plural rocce)
- rock, crag
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VII”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 5–6; 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:
- « […] poder ch'elli abbia, ¶ non ci torrà lo scender questa roccia».
- « […] any power that he may have ¶ shall not prevent thy going down this crag».
- rock climbing