assediare
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perhaps a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin assediāre, reshaping of Classical Latin obsidēre.[1] Alternatively, derived from assedio (“siege”) + -are (1st-conjugation verbal suffix).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]assediàre (first-person singular present assèdio, first-person singular past historic assediài, past participle assediàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)
- (military) to besiege, to lay siege to
- Synonym: cingere d'assedio
- 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Come Iulio Ascanio figliuolo d’Enea fu re apresso lui, e li re e signori che discesono di sua progenia. [How Julius Ascanius, son of Aeneas, became king after him; and the kings and lords descended from his progeny]” (chapter 24), Libro primo [First book], in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle][1], published 1991:
- […] discesero molti grandi e possenti re e signori; intra gli altri il valente Brenno e Bellino fratelli, i quali per loro potenzia sconfissero gli Romani e assediaro Roma, e presolla infino a Campidoglio
- […] many great and powerful lords came, among which the valiant brothers Brennus and Bellinus, who — through their power — defeated the Romans, and laid siege to Rome, and conquered it up to the Capitolium
- 1856, Carlo Troya, chapter XLIII (chapter 43), in Del veltro allegorico de' Ghibellini: con altre scritture intorno alla Divina Commedia di Dante; republished in Costantino Panigada, editor, Del veltro allegorico di Dante e altri saggi storici[2], Bari: Laterza, 1932, page 81:
- Poco innanzi che Arrigo assediasse Firenze, maggiori moti che in Genova si erano suscitati contro esso e Can della Scala in Padova, impaziente di aver perduto Vicenza, ed unita con Trevigi donde i signori di Camino furono discacciati
- Shortly before Henry besieged Florence, uprisings — greater than those in Genoa — took place against him and Can della Scala in Padua, unable to accept having lost Vicenza, and joined together with Treviso, wherefrom the lords of Camino were exiled
- (figurative) to weigh on, to trouble
- 13th century, Jacopone da Todi, [untitled poem]; republished as “De san Francesco e de le battaglie del Nemico contra lui [Of saint Francis, and of the Adversary's battles against him]” (chapter 62), in Giovanni Ferri, editor, Le Laude secondo la stampa fiorentina del 1490 [Praises][3], Bari: Laterza, 1915, page 140:
- — Non so messo per mucciare: — ’nante, vengo per cacciare,
ché te voglio assediare — ed a le terre agio attendato.- I'm not here to flee; in fact, I'm here to hunt
for I want to trouble you; and I have tended to the lands.
- I'm not here to flee; in fact, I'm here to hunt
- 1817 December 25, Ugo Foscolo, [untitled letter]; republished as “Lettera d'introduzione a un'opera (ideata) comparativa concernente l'Italia e l'Inghilterra”, in Scritti politici inediti di Ugo Foscolo[4], Lugano, 1844, page 200:
- […] il troppo esaminare assedia il giudizio di dubbi, e disanima la fantasia
- […] excessive examination weighs on judgment with doubt, and disanimates imagination
- (figurative) to beset, to surround
- Synonym: circondare
- (figurative) to nag, to pester
- Synonym: assillare
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of assediàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ assediare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- ^ “assediare”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 1 a–balb, UTET, 1966, page 752
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