caprigno
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From capra (“goat”) + -igno (“-ish”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]caprigno (feminine caprigna, masculine plural caprigni, feminine plural caprigne)
- (literary, relational) goat; caprine
- Synonym: caprino
- 1810 [c. 8th century BCE], “Libro III”, in Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade, translation of Ῑ̓λιάς (Īliás, Iliad) by Homer (in Epic Greek), lines 323–327; republished as Iliade di Omero[1], 4th edition, Milan: Società tipografica dei classici italiani, 1825:
- Venìan recando i banditori intanto
Dalla città le sacre ostie di pace,
Due trascelti agnelletti, e della terra
Giocondo frutto generoso vino
Chiuso in otre caprigno. […]- [original: Κήρυκες δ’ ἀνὰ ἄστυ θεῶν φέρον ὅρκια πιστά,
ἄρνε δύω καὶ οἶνον ἐΰφρονα καρπὸν ἀρούρης,
ἀσκῷ ἐν αἰγείῳ] - Kḗrukes d’ anà ástu theôn phéron hórkia pistá,
árne dúō kaì oînon eǘphrona karpòn aroúrēs,
askôi en aigeíōi
- Kḗrukes d’ anà ástu theôn phéron hórkia pistá,
- Meanwhile, the announcers came bringing the sacred peace offerings, two carefully selected lambs, and wine—pleasant harvest of the earth—sealed in a goat wineskin.
- [original: Κήρυκες δ’ ἀνὰ ἄστυ θεῶν φέρον ὅρκια πιστά,
Further reading
[edit]- caprigno in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana