ammogliarsi
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Italian
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[edit]ammogliàrsi (first-person singular present mi ammóglio, first-person singular past historic mi ammogliài, past participle ammogliàto)
- to get married (with a woman)
- (figurative) to copulate [with con ‘with’]
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto I, page 14, lines 100–102:
- Molti son li animali a cui s'ammoglia, ¶ e più saranno ancora, infin che 'l veltro ¶ verrà, che la farà morir con doglia.
- Many are the animals with whom she [a she-wolf] copulates, ¶ and more they will be still, until the greyhound ¶ comes, who will make her die in pain.