eternale
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Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Late Latin aeternālis (“eternal”). By surface analysis, eterno (“eternity”) + -ale.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]eternale (plural eternali)
- (obsolete, poetic) eternal
- Synonym: eterno
- 1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata quinta – Novella ottava”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron[1], Bari: Laterza, 1927:
- […] io un dì, con questo stocco […] m’uccisi, e sono alle pene eternali dannato.
- One day, with this rapier […] I killed myself, and I'm damned to the eternal punishment.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- eternale in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana