sveglio

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See also: svegliò

Italian

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Etymology 1

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From the short past participle of svegliare (to wake up) in Tuscan; compare the Standard Italian participle svegliato (woken up).[1]

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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sveglio (feminine sveglia, masculine plural svegli, feminine plural sveglie)

  1. awake
    Synonym: (literary) desto
    Antonym: addormentato
  2. (figurative, by extension) alert; ready
  3. (informal) cunning
    Synonyms: accorto, furbo, smaliziato
    Antonym: ingenuo

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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sveglio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of svegliare

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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sveglio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of svegliere

References

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  1. ^ Ledgeway 2016: 221

Further reading

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  • Ledgeway, Adam. 2016. Italian, Tuscan, and Corsican. In Ledgeway, Adam & Maiden, Martin (eds.), The Oxford guide to the Romance languages, 206–227. Oxford: OUP.