disnodarsi
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From disnodare (“to untie”) + -si (“oneself”, enclitic reflexive pronoun).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]disnodàrsi (first-person singular present mi disnòdo, first-person singular past historic mi disnodài, past participle disnodàto) (intransitive)
- reflexive of disnodare
- to free oneself, to break free [with da ‘from’]
- Synonym: liberarsi
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XXXI, page 558, lines 88–90:
- La tua magnificenza in me custodi, ¶ sì che l'anima mia, che fatt'hai sana, ¶ piacente a te dal corpo si disnodi
- Preserve towards me thy magnificence, so that this soul of mine, which thou hast healed, pleasing to thee be loosened from the body