sciaurato

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/ʃawˈra.to/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: sciau‧rà‧to

Adjective

sciaurato (feminine sciaurata, masculine plural sciaurati, feminine plural sciaurate)

1. (poetic or dialectal) Alternative form of sciagurato
   • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Inferno [Hell]‎^[1], lines 63–66; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[2], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Questi sciaurati, che mai non fur vivi
     erano ignudi e stimolati molto
     da mosconi e da vespe ch'eran ivi.

     These wretches, who never had been alive
     were naked and bitten a great deal
     by mosquitoes and by wasps which were in that place.

Further reading

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