accasciarsi
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From accasciare + -si.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]accasciàrsi (first-person singular present mi accàscio, first-person singular past historic mi accasciài, past participle accasciàto)
- reflexive of accasciare
- to collapse
- 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXIV”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 52–54; 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:
- E però leva sù; vinci l’ambascia
con l’animo che vince ogni battaglia,
se col suo grave corpo non s’accascia.- And therefore raise up, overcome the anguish with spirit that overcomes every battle, if with its heavy body it sinks not.
- (figurative) to lose heart