amplesso
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin amplexus (“loving embrace”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]amplesso m (plural amplessi)
- intercourse
- 1980, Umberto Eco, “Primo giorno - Sesta”, in Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose] (I grandi tascabili), Milan: Bompiani, published 1984, page 66:
- E se da questo amplesso nasceva un bambino, ricominciava il rito infernale,
- And if a baby was born from this intercourse, the infernal rite woud have started again,
- embrace
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