adontarsi
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Italian
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[edit]Verb
[edit]adontàrsi (first-person singular present mi adónto, first-person singular past historic mi adontài, past participle adontàto)
- (obsolete) to take offence/take offense or feel insulted
- Synonym: sdegnarsi
- 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VI”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 70–72; 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:
- Alte terrà lungo tempo le fronti,
tenendo l’altra sotto gravi pesi,
come che di ciò pianga o che n’aonti.- It will hold its forehead high for a long time, keeping the other under heavy burdens, whether it weeps or is indignant at that.
Usage notes
[edit]- In ancient times, the pronominal particle was sometimes not used in conjugating this verb.