affanno
Appearance
See also: affannò
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Deverbal from affannare + -o.
Noun
[edit]affanno m (plural affanni)
- breathlessness
- Synonyms: dispnea, soffocamento, trafelamento
- (informal, by extension) asthma
- (figurative, by extension) worry, trouble, anxiety
- 1829, Giacomo Leopardi, Le ricordanze [The memories]:
- soggiorno disumano, intra gli affanni, / o dell'arida vita unico fiore.
- inhumane sojourn, inside the anxieties / o in the arid life the only flower.
- 2020 September 8, Federico Rampini, “Lusso, staff, bodyguard: Trump dilapida i fondi mentre Biden fa il pieno [Luxury, staff, bodyguard: Trump dilapidates his funds while Biden has enough]”, in la Repubblica[1]:
- Quell'annuncio sui cento milioni di denaro personale arriva, guarda caso, nel giorno in cui un'inchiesta del New York Times, rovistando in tutti i documenti contabili che la campagna è tenuta a depositare, arriva a questa conclusione: il presidente è in affanno rispetto a Joe Biden, proprio quando la gara entra nel rettilineo finale.
- That announcement on the millions of personal dollars arrives, coincidentally, on the day in which a New York Times investigation, rummaging through all the accounting documents that the campaign is required to deposit, arrives to this conclusion: the president is in trouble with respect to Joe Biden, just when the race is entering into the final stretch.
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]affanno
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