rubello
Italian
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editrubello (feminine rubella, masculine plural rubelli, feminine plural rubelle)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of ribelle (“rebellious”)
- 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro tredecimo [Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle][1], published 1991, section 32:
- Ancora nel detto tempo e mese furono per lo detto popolo fatti uficiali a rimettere tra ribelli certi Ghibellini caporali, e altri possenti stati rubelli prima
- And, in that same year and month, by that same people, some officials were made to put some Ghibelline corporals among the rebels, along with some other potentates that had been rebellious before
- 1581, Annibale Caro, transl., Eneide [Aeneid][2], Florence: Leonardo Ciardetti, translation of Aeneis by Virgil, published 1827, Libro VI, page 296:
- […] e qui ne l’imo
Suo baratro dal fulmine trafitti
Son gli antichi Titàni al ciel rubelli- And here, in its deep chasm, the ancient Titans, rebellious against the heavens, are pierced by lightning
Noun
editrubello m (plural rubelli, feminine rubella)
Further reading
edit- rubello in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
editAdjective
editrubellō