d'uopo

Italian

Etymology

Literally, “of need”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd‿wɔ.po/
• Rhymes: -ɔpo
• Hyphenation: d'uò‧po

Adjective

d'uopo (invariable)

1. (archaic, literary) necessary, needed, requisite, needful
   • mid 1560s [29–19 BCE], “Libro sesto”, in Annibale Caro, transl., Eneide, translation of Aeneis by Publius Vergilius Maro (in Classical Latin), lines 915–919; republished as L’Eneide di Virgilio‎^[1], Florence: G. Barbera, 1892:

     […] in questo abisso
     Han tutti i lor ridotti e le lor pene.
     E che pena e che forma e che fortuna
     Di ciascun sia, non è d’uopo ch’io dica

     [original: hic […]
     inclūsī poenam exspectant. nē quaere docērī
     quam poenam, aut quae forma virōs fortūnave mersit.]

     […] they all have their place and their punishment, in this abyss. And there is no need for me to say what the kind of punishment, what the form, and what the condition is for each one

     (literally, “ […] in this abyss they all have their places and their punishments. And what punishment and what form and what destiny of each one is, is not necessary that I say.”)

Related terms

• all'uopo
• essere uopo

 

Further reading

• uopo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana