deità
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See also: deita
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Apocopation of earlier deitade, deitate, from Latin deitātem.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]deità f (invariable)
- (literary) godhood, divinity
- (literary) deity, god, divinity
- 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Paradiso [Heaven][1], lines 28–33; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- Sì rade volte, padre, se ne coglie
per trïunfare o cesare o poeta,
colpa e vergogna de l’umane voglie,
che parturir letizia in su la lieta
delfica deïtà dovria la fronda
peneia, quando alcun di sé asseta.- So seldom, Father, do we gather them for triumph or of Caesar or of Poet, the fault and shame of human inclinations, that the Peneian foliage should bring forth joy to the joyous Delphic deity, when any one it makes to thirst for it.
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- deità in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana